“Soldiers Mock Elderly Man at Base — Then a General Walks Out and Silences Them with a Salute”
The Silent Sentinel: A Legacy Folded in Flags It began with laughter. Just before noon, under a cloudless sky and flanked by neatly mowed lawns and uniformed orderlies, a frail old man stood alone by the front gate of Valor Ridge Military Base. Bent at the shoulders and wrapped in a jacket worn thin by …