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

described in language I was not modest enough to disagree with. Soldiers I would trust with my life who trusted me with theirs.

And throughout all of it, my mother described Afghanistan as me taking time off for travel.

She made me a footnote in a story about herself. She told her church friends she had raised a strong-willed daughter, that it had not continue reading …