My Stepmother Said I Disgraced The Uniform Until A Soldier Stood Up And Told The Truth

between the truth and the page where I was writing it down.

Just Megan Callaway.

Just the truth in blue ink on a government form in a waiting room where no one knew my name or my call sign or the sound of a collapsing building at dawn in Mosul, Iraq.

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