“Who wrote these entries?”

“Private Dewitt, ma’am.

I initialed each one as he wrote it.”

“And this stamp.”

“That’s not garrison ink.” She said it flatly, the way a person reads a tire pressure.

“No, ma’am.

I flagged it this morning.” My hand went to the brass buckle on my belt, and I made myself drop it.

She looked at me one beat longer than the sentence needed.