At My Wedding My Mother Said Uniforms Were Not for Me Until Hundreds of Service Members Rose to Their Feet

than the one she was born into and was trying so hard to deserve.

I would have told her to stop shrinking.

She eventually figured it out on her own, the way most things worth knowing get learned, through time and cost and the particular instruction of being thrown into situations that required more of her than she thought she had.

The note from the cadet continue reading …