they listened. For years, families had been donating the memorabilia from their loved one’s military service to the museum, which could now barely contain all the items. Photos covered walls up to the ceiling, display cases threatened to take over aisles, and racks were packed...
with pride and with certainty. For them I had built the perfect chain link pen behind the garage, eight feet wide and running the entire length of the two-car garage. A third of the pen’s floor was sand for doing the doggie’s duty. Overhead in the heat of summer the broad leaves...