Tell my sons : a father's last letters
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, [2012].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 212 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York : Ballantine Books, [2012].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"At the high point of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three ... When [he] realized that he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without him, they would know what his life-and-death story had taught him--about courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration"--Dust jacket flap.
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An Army Colonel serving in Afghanistan, who developed intestinal cancer at the age of thirty-eight, writes a letter to his sons about what his battle for life has taught him and how to live their lives without him.
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LC Subjects
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Autobiographies.
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Conduct of life.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Minnesota -- Biography.
Minnesota. -- Army National Guard -- Biography.
Personal narratives.
United States. -- Army -- Officers -- Biography.
Weber, Mark M.
Autobiographies.
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Conduct of life.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Minnesota -- Biography.
Minnesota. -- Army National Guard -- Biography.
Personal narratives.
United States. -- Army -- Officers -- Biography.
Weber, Mark M.