Bye, Mr. Ex! novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Hall of Valor
The Hall of Valor was a curved auditorium with fourteen hundred seats, and every one of them was full.
Soldiers sat by company in dress uniform, families filled the balconies, and a camera crew from the post newspaper stood on a riser.
At the front, on a stage hung with unit colors, a wall of dark wood waited under a velvet cloth.
The Colonel stood at the podium in his Class A's.
Beside him sat a two-star general with a face like a closed door, who had flown in that morning.
Colby stood to the Colonel's right in dress blues, with the Silver Star on his chest and a fresh haircut.
His knuckles were still swollen, and he held his right hand behind his back.
I sat in the third row of the Bravo section with Darden on my left.
A staff sergeant from the audio booth had come down the aisle ten minutes earlier and murmured to her.
Darden had nodded, once, and not looked at me.
"Is it done?" I whispered.
"He owes me for a reason I'll take to my grave," said Darden. "Sit still."
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