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

pants and the boots.

People tried polite laughter. Most did not quite manage it.

Then she arrived at the punchline.

“I guess when you can’t find a man to outrank you,” she said, “you marry one who salutes you at home instead.”

The room went quiet in the specific way that rooms go quiet when something has been said that cannot be taken back.

I stood up.

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