Military stories.
Stories about veterans, service members and the families who wait for them.
The Flag Case She Shipped Away
The first thing I noticed walking back into that house wasn’t the smell of the casserole somebody had left cooling on the stove, or the... Read more
The Orders Packet He Buried
The filing cabinet in my father in law’s tack room has three drawers, and I had walked past it a hundred times in four months... Read more
The Honor Flight Seat They Gave Away
The letter came on a Tuesday, and I read it standing up at the kitchen counter because I did not trust my knees to hold... Read more
The Dog Tags a Stranger Returned
“It was junk, Vernon. Ash. You should thank me for the closure.” That is what my brother-in-law Stanley told me in the spring of 1987,... Read more
The Box That Finally Made It Home
The box was sitting square in the middle of my top porch step when I came out with my coffee, and for a second I... Read more
The Day the Speaker Went Silent
The bluetooth speaker died on the sixth note of Taps, right in the middle of the phrase every soldier carries in his bones, and for... Read more
The Binder That Proved Them Wrong
Preston Hale did not even look up when he told me my husband had not earned a single dollar of what he swore to us... Read more
The Banner That Finally Spelled His Name Right
The clock on the feed store’s brick face at the corner of Main and Route 9 read two forty seven that Thursday afternoon when I... Read more
The Banner That Left Him Off
“There wasn’t room for everyone, Cassandra,” Sylvia Crane told me in the fellowship hall of Cedar Grove Baptist Church, two days before the Fourth of... Read more
The Uniform She Ironed for Twenty Years
For twenty years I kept my son’s dress blues pressed and waiting in the hall closet, and every single Sunday I took them out, and... Read more
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