"My 5-Year-Old Was Called a ""Dirty Liar"" by Her Teacher for Drawing My Job—Until I Walked In Wearing 4 Stars and the Room Went Dead Silent. Chapter 1: The Promise I was doing eighty on the interstate, my knuckles white against the leather steering wheel of my rental. My flight from Germany had landed two hours late, and I was currently fighting a losing battle against D.C. traffic. I wasn’t General Thomas “Mac” Mackenzie today. I wasn’t the guy who coordinated joint task forces or sat in situa