The Man in Uniform

He survived Iraq. But every night at dinner, I watched him disappear. The boy who used to chase fireflies in our backyard, who’d laugh so hard he’d snort milk through his nose, was gone. In his place sat a man in a pressed uniform, medals pinned to his chest, but his eyes—those blue eyes that […]

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“The Flag Folded Too Fast” – A Veteran’s Daughter Remembers

“They folded that flag like it meant something—but forgot him two months later.” That was the day I stopped saluting the flag. Don’t get me wrong—Daddy raised me to respect it. Every Fourth of July, we’d stand out by the flagpole he cemented into our front yard, hand over heart, the nylon snapping in the

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