02163cam a2200409u 4500 833574715 OCoLC 20250716141005.0 ta 131008r20132012nyua 000 0aeng 2013016544 9780345549440 25.00 (OCoLC)833574715 DLC eng DLC rda NjBwBT AJM pcc n-us--- n-us-mn a-af--- B Weber, Mark M. LT. COL. 21826 Tell my sons : a father's last letters / Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber ; foreword by Robin Williams. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2013], b2012. xxvi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. text rdacontent. unmediated rdamedia. volume rdacarrier. "Originally published by Beaver's Pond Press, Inc., in 2012 in slightly different form"--Title page verso. "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. Weber, Mark M. 21826 United States. Army Officers Biography. 6645 Minnesota. Army National Guard Biography. 21827 Conduct of life. Afghan War, 2001- Personal narratives, American. 6647 Cancer Patients United States Biography. 20251 Death Psychological aspects. 21484 Minnesota Biography. 21828 ddc BOOK 3010 3010 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 0 B WEBE 34101 2016-10-26 25.00 2016-10-26 BOOK