I Was the Only One at My Grandpa’s Funeral Until a General Saw His Ring and Asked Me One Question

the value of remembering what you’ve done, even when the world has been instructed to forget it.” He paused. “You told me he said the ring reminded him who he was.”

“Yes.”

“That is not a small thing,” he said. “For a man in his position, in his particular kind of service, the pressure to become no one was constant and deliberate. The ring was how he continue reading …