“I stopped at a small diner outside Norfolk and saw an elderly veteran being told that his card hadn’t gone through. I quietly paid his bill and left before he had the chance to thank me. Two weeks later, my commanding officer called me into his office. The man waiting inside was the very same veteran from that day — except this time, he was wearing four stars on his shoulders.”
The moment I stepped into my commanding officer’s office and saw the old man from the diner sitting there in…