02268cam a2200421u  4500001001100000003000800011005001700019007000300036008004100039010001500080020002500095035002100120040003600141042000800177043003000185082000600215100003600221245010000257250001900357260005000376300004700426336002200473337002600495338002400521500011100545520072400656600002601380610005301406610005501459650002101514650006001535650005501595650004101650651003301691942001401724999001501738952009301753833574715 OCoLC  20250716141005.0ta131008r20132012nyua          000 0aeng    a2013016544  a9780345549440c25.00  a(OCoLC)833574715  aDLCbengcDLCerdadNjBwBTdAJM  apcc  an-us---an-us-mnaa-af---  aB  aWeber, Mark M.eLT. COL.92182610aTell my sons :ba father's last letters /cLt. Col. Mark M. Weber ; foreword by Robin Williams.  aFirst edition.  aNew York :bBallantine Books,c[2013], b2012.  axxvi, 212 pages :billustrations ;c22 cm.  atext2rdacontent.  aunmediated2rdamedia.  avolume2rdacarrier.  a"Originally published by Beaver's Pond Press, Inc., in 2012 in slightly different form"--Title page verso.  a"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.10aWeber, Mark M.92182610aUnited States.bArmyxOfficersvBiography.9664510aMinnesota.bArmy National GuardvBiography.921827 0aConduct of life. 0aAfghan War, 2001-vPersonal narratives, American.96647 0aCancerxPatientszUnited StatesvBiography.920251 0aDeathxPsychological aspects.921484 0aMinnesotavBiography.921828  2ddccBOOK  c3010d3010  4070aABELJbabeljcBd2016-10-26l0oB WEBEp34101r2016-10-26v25.00w2016-10-26yBOOK