wording.
What can you tell us?
Not:
Prove that your life matters.
Ryan called more often.
Most conversations had nothing to do with the Navy.
Sometimes he complained about laundry.
Once he called because he’d burned chicken in a pan and somehow believed operational planning experience made me a culinary authority.
I told him to order pizza.
He said,
“This is why nobody should salute you.”
Six months after his Trident ceremony, a photograph arrived in the mail.
No message.
Just a photograph.
It had been taken that morning in
