02601cam a2200445 i 4500 623879870 TxAuBib 20130708120000.0 130517t20132012||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013016544 9780345549440 hardback : alkaline paper 0345549449 hardback : alkaline paper (OCoLC)844073723 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC IG# rda DLC MNW YDXCP VET TXA ROPUB TxAuBib IG# MNW YDXCP VET TXA ROPUB TxAuBib rda Weber, Mark M. Tell my sons : a father's last letters / Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber ; foreword by Robin Williams. First Edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2013] ©2012. xxvi, 212 pages : illustrations ;hardcover ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published by Beaver's Pond Press, Inc., in 2012 in slightly different form"--Title page verso. "Each of these titles comes from a farewell speech General Douglas Macarthur delivered in 1962 to the corps of cadets at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point."---page xvii. Includes bibliographical references. "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. 20130708. Weber, Mark M. United States Army Officers Biography. Minnesota Army National Guard Biography. Conduct of life. Cancer Patients United States Biography. Death Psychological aspects. Death Psychological aspects Personal narratives. Minnesota Biography. Biographies. lcgft Personal narratives. TXKPL