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A Father's Last Letters
Ballantine
January 2013
On Sale: December 24, 2012
242 pages
ISBN: 0345549449
EAN: 9780345549440
Kindle: B00CS8KJUS
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Non-Fiction Inspirational | Non-Fiction Memoir
At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. Over the next two years he would fight a desperate battle he wasnβt trained for, with his wife and boys as his reluctant but willing fighting force.
When Weber 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 himβabout courage and fear, challenge and comfort, words and actions, pride and humility, seriousness and humor, and viewing life as a never-ending search for new ideas and inspiration.
This book is that letter. And itβs not just for his sons. Itβs for everyone who can use the best advice a dying hero has to offer.
Weberβs stories illustrate that in the end you become what you are through the causes to which you attach yourselfβand that youβve made your own along the way. Through his example, he teaches how to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary way.
 Media BuzzThe View - June 5, 2013
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