My Father Called Me A Zero In Front Of Officers Until The Colonel Asked For My Call Sign

response of a man who had so thoroughly confused control with care that they had become the same word in his internal vocabulary.

“I don’t need your protection,” I said. “I need your respect. Those are not the same thing, and you have spent thirty-three years offering me one and withholding the other and expecting that the trade was acceptable.”

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