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

accumulated absence of the father he might have been if he had been capable of seeing me before a Navy SEAL colonel walked into a room and made his ignorance undeniable. The scar was real. I had stopped trying to make it not real.

But I had also stopped letting the scar be the whole story.

“I have an early flight,” I said. “Pentagon briefing in the morning.continue reading …