The two times he saw his father cry
From a guest post on James Fallow’s blog by Eric McMillan, who is writing a novel about his tours of duty in Iraq, one spent commanding a Stryker company. “Two years after I came home from Iraq and a year before my wife and I found out that we were expecting a child, I stood ...
From a guest post on James Fallow's blog by Eric McMillan, who is writing a novel about his tours of duty in Iraq, one spent commanding a Stryker company.
From a guest post on James Fallow’s blog by Eric McMillan, who is writing a novel about his tours of duty in Iraq, one spent commanding a Stryker company.
“Two years after I came home from Iraq and a year before my wife and I found out that we were expecting a child, I stood beside my father at his mother’s funeral. He didn’t cry. I didn’t think that odd. I am, after all, my father’s son. I’ve seen him cry only two times in my entire life: When he sent me off to war in Iraq, and when he watched me go back a second time.”
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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