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

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“Of course.” He nodded, and the disappointment in his eyes was real and uncomplicated and he did not try to hide it or convert it into pressure. He simply felt it, which was its own kind of progress. “Call Sunday?”

“Sunday,” I said.

He turned toward the exit, an old man in a too-loose suit moving through a room full of people who were living the career continue reading …