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The Promotion After Midnight
The night my mother-in-law shaved my head while I slept was the same night the United States Army promoted me to Colonel. That sentence still sounds impossible when I say it out loud. One moment, I was standing beneath bright lights at the Pentagon while senior officers applauded twenty-two years of service. A two-star general pinned the...
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