Mother Raises Son With Father's Wisdom (Father killed in Iraq)

[fortyfeetunder]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/WoodruffReports/story?id=6524894&page=1

"For Dana Canedy, it was a classic case of opposites attracting. She was a hard-charging New York Times reporter, her fiance 1st Sgt. Charles King a career military man of few words but unshakeable convictions...

In 2005, Canedy gave birth to their son Jordan, while King was on combat patrol in Iraq's notorious Triangle of Death. Jordan was already 4 months old the first time he met his father, when King was home on a two-week leave from the Army.Six weeks later, King, 48, was killed by a roadside bomb on an isolated road near Baghdad...

Canedy says King understood the risks of war and what it could mean for his family, so he left behind a journal for his son, filled with a father's wisdom. In some ways, Canedy believes that King wrote his words with the awareness that he might not make it back to his family. "I think there were many days he felt that way," she says...

...King was committed to completing the journal while serving in Iraq but after the death of one of his soldiers months before his own death, King sent the journal home. "

:cry:

[democrank]

1. So sad

but I`m glad that Jordan King has his father`s journal.