I Greeted a Deaf Veteran in Sign Language. I Had No Idea the Four-Star General Was Watching. I thought it was going to be a quiet Tuesday: check inbound pallets, print badges, help the visitor center not drown before lunch. Fort Liberty’s lobby was its usual chaos—radios crackling, printers spitting, people talking over each other like the building itself had a heartbeat. He stood a few feet from the desk, a seventysomething in a pressed jacket and polished shoes, a man who still wore posture li