''In the summer of 1968, a few months after the Tet Offensive shook America's confidence in the Vietnam War, my father deployed for his second combat tour. He left behind six children and his wife of 21 years. Over the following year, he commanded an infantry brigade in combat, earned his third and fourth Silver Stars for valor, and all but secured his promotion to brigadier general. It was a career-defining tour. But for my siblings and me, 9,000 miles away, it was also a year without a dad at home. My mother carried the family with extraordinary strength. But we missed out on things: Dad wasn't around to watch baseball or coach basketball. The familiar figure renovating the old house my parents had bought after his first tour in Vietnam simply wasn't there. Parts of my father's life did not go smoothly. He made mistakes'as humans do. And if you assessed him strictly on his 'dad duties,' you may have found him lacking. Yet when he died at 89 and our family buried him at Arlington...
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