Part Five: Fourteen Months

I deployed on the third of December.

What I did for the next fourteen months is what a certain kind of man does, which is work.

I want to be careful about how I say this, because there is a way of telling it that makes it sound noble and it was not.

I was extremely good at my job for fourteen months, and I volunteered for things, and I extended once, and I got a commendation that is in a drawer in my apartment.

All of that was the same act.