They Sold His Medals and Watered Down His Medicine to Pay for a Cruise. They Never Knew About the Trust
Ramona handled the legal notifications while I arranged a simple cremation and a small memorial with military honors.
Six Marines came, older men, some of whom had served with him and some who only knew what he had been.
Two neighbors came.
Dr.
Okafor came, and Ramona.
And me.
That was all of us, and it was enough, and it was right.
My mother was not there.
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