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r zone—a fact that always made me feel like I didn’t measure up in my father’s now here I was, his youngest son, being shipped off to a foreign land 9,000 miles away, to fight a war in a country we had barely heard of November 17, 1990, our convoy of military vehicles rolled out of rural Greenville, streets were filled with families and wellwishers to see us we approached the edge of town, I looked out the window of my truck and saw my wife, Kim, my children, and Mom and were all waving and crying, except for my just stood there, almost like a stone looked incredibly old at that don’t know why, he just was gone for that Thanksgiving and missed our family’s was always a crowd, with two of my sisters, their husbands and children, plus my wife and our disturbed me greatly that I couldn’t be few days after Thanksgiving I was able to call my wife, and she told me something that has made me look at my father in a different way ever wife knew how my father was about his emotions, and I could hear her voice quaver as she spoke to told me that my father recited his usual Thanksgiving this time he added one last his voice started to crack and a tear ran down his cheek, he said, “Dear Lord, please watch over and guide my son, Rick, with your hand in his time of need as he serves his country, and bring him home to us safely.” At that point he burst into had never seen my father cry, and when I heard this, I couldn’t help but start to cry wife asked me what was regaining my posure, I said, “I guess my father really does love me.”Eight months later, when I returned home from the war, I ran over and hugged my wife and children in a flurry of I came to my father, I embraced him and gave him a huge whispered in my ear, “I’m very proud of you, Son, and I love you.” I looke