Act I “Watch your chair.” The words came from a tall man in a military dress uniform, his polished shoes stopping inches from a black wheelchair in the middle of a five-star hotel…
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Act I “Move.” The command came sharply from a man in an expensive charcoal suit. An elderly veteran stood in the middle of the historic train station’s main hall, trying to make his…
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Act I “My driver gets your team.” The Major General’s voice cut through the noise of the battlefield triage station. Two wounded soldiers lay on stretchers beneath a canvas awning. One was barely…
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Act I “My aide takes this room.” The order came from a Brigadier General standing in the middle of a crowded military medical center. Behind him, an injured aide waited for treatment. But…
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Act I “I go first.” The words cut through the chaos of the forward surgical station. A wounded soldier lay motionless on a stretcher, his condition critical. Medical personnel moved urgently between the…
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Act I “Pick that up before I shut this whole stand down.” The threat rang across the crowded commuter rail platform. A small bottle of water had fallen beside an elderly man’s newspaper…
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Act I The expensive suit was barely stained, but the man wearing it was already behaving as though someone had committed an unforgivable crime. “You just ruined these.” His voice echoed through the…
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Act I The first splash of dirty water was barely enough to ruin a pair of expensive trousers. But the man standing outside the subway entrance reacted as if someone had deliberately attacked…
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Act I “My son gets the room.” Brigadier General Thomas Vance stood in the middle of Therapy Room Four, pointing toward the padded rehabilitation area where several wounded service members were completing their…
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Act I “Move that private.” Colonel Richard Hayes pointed toward a young soldier lying on a stretcher in Bay Three of the military hospital’s emergency wing. The soldier’s breathing was unstable. Medical monitors…
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