My Daughter Went to the Father Daughter Dance Alone Until a Dozen Marines Walked In

folded against her chest and in the men who had driven through a February night in their dress blues to keep his word and in the laughter my daughter had found again after three months of quiet. He was there in all of it. He had been there all along, waiting to be found.

The room broke into applause when the song ended, the full-room applause of people continue reading …