TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weber, Mark M.
TI  - Tell my sons: a father's last letters 
SN  - 9780345549440
U1  - B 
PY  - 2013///], b2012
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Weber, Mark M.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Minnesota
KW  - Army National Guard
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - "Originally published by Beaver's Pond Press, Inc., in 2012 in slightly different form"--Title page verso
N2  - "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
ER  -