Chapter 18: The Seam

Hollis has one belt and two men below him, and the order of that climb is his to give. He gives it to Tank, and then he spends the rest of his life refusing to decide whether that choice was the difference between one man in that slot and two. He doesn't dress it up. He just says he never picked an answer, and I find that harder to sit with than anything the grenade did. Would you have made the same call?
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