My parents begged me not to wear my uniform to brother’s wedding. “The military is embarrassing.” But I walked in wearing my dress blues – a silver star on my chest. 150 guests went silent. 12 veterans stood up: “Silver star in the room!” My family froze.
I am Captain Tori Meyers, and I was thirty-two on the gray, rainy morning my mother looked me in the face and asked me to erase myself. She stood in the doorway of my childhood bedroom, holding a pale blue dress on a wooden hanger. It was expensive, soft, shapeless silk—the kind of dress designed
My parents begged me not to wear my uniform to brother’s wedding. “The military is embarrassing.” But I walked in wearing my dress blues – a silver star on my chest. 150 guests went silent. 12 veterans stood up: “Silver star in the room!” My family froze. Read More