After My Sister-In-Law Downgraded My Seat, A Four-Star General Stepped In

So I booked a flight to Florida for the family reunion.

First class.

Not because I craved champagne or warm towels or any of the manufactured luxuries airlines market as necessities. I booked it because my VA doctor had studied my scans the previous year, leaned back in his chair with the resigned expression of someone delivering unwelcome truth, and continue reading …