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The Tattoo at the Pinning
The Marine laughed at the tattoo on Evelyn Whitaker’s wrist before her son even had the new rank pinned onto his chest. “Cute,” Staff Sergeant Brent Harlan said, loudly enough for three rows of families to hear. “Did you get that done at a strip mall, ma’am? Or was it some kind of midlife-crisis decision?” The battalion auditorium at Camp...
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