read, I formally assumed command.
Colonel Rebecca Bennett.
For years, Daniel had made jokes about my job.
He called it paperwork.
He called it bureaucracy.
He once told a dinner table full of friends:
“Rebecca basically moves boxes for the Army.”
I never corrected him.
Not because I was hiding.
Because I did not need his understanding to make my career real.
That lesson took me far too long to learn.
Daniel was not at the ceremony.
Our divorce was still being finalized.
His company had collapsed.
Civil and criminal
