Chapter 20: The Paperwork

He signs three times. Then he does the thing he can't explain — asks the colonel for the copy with the disposition on it, folds it into his jacket pocket, and carries it from that day to this without ever opening it. That's the part I can't work out. He could have walked out of that office and let the page stay on the desk. Nobody would have handed it to him. He asked for it, and he wanted it folded shut. Which of those two is harder, I honestly don't know.
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