He walked in the door after work and dropped his Air Force cap on my head. I don’t remember the moment, but my Mom snapped a photo. Toddler me gazes up at the camera, sassy-like, because how can you ...

We were called "Air Force brats" or just "brats" for short. We were the military dependents who spent the best part of our young lives living in what I considered at that time to be the ultimate gated ...