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

at his coffee cup. He had been peeling the cardboard sleeve in small strips, something I had never seen him do. Fidgeting was not something General Arthur Neves did, which meant the man sitting across from me was not entirely General Arthur Neves anymore.

“I made you sit down,” he said. “In front of two hundred officers.”

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