“I’m not a Navy SEAL.

I’ve never worn a Trident on my chest.”

Matty didn’t look down.

He kept his head up, his hands resting flat on his knees.

“What I wear is an EOD badge,” I told the three hundred students.

“When a special operations team heads into a dangerous area, my squad goes in ahead of them.

We find the land mines.

We defuse the unexploded artillery shells.