Military & Action · fiction
The Medal on the Dinner Plate
“Put that away. Nobody here cares.” My father flicked the medal case across the table. It struck the edge of my dinner plate, bounced once, and fell open into a mound of mashed potatoes and brown gravy. For a second, nobody spoke. Then my stepbrother laughed. Not loudly. That almost made it worse. It was the satisfied little laugh of a man who...
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