Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
I needed to talk to my dad. My dad who had been to war, who had seen its horrors, who suffered from its nightmares, my dad who was a good man, the best man I__ ever known, who, along with my uncle, I wanted to honor by teaching military kids__y dad, the only one who I would believe if he would just tell me I could be good, too, that I could do right by my students, because for sure they were going to suffer. It__ just cause and effect. We__e at war. The military fights wars. I teach military kids. I__ never served, but now I could make a difference. I just needed my dad to tell me what to do, to tell me I was good enough to get it done.
The Day Before 9/11
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I needed to talk to my dad. My dad who had been to war, who had seen its horrors, who suffered from its nightmares, my dad who was a good man, the best man I__ ever known, who, along with my uncle, I wanted to honor by teaching military kids__y dad, the only one who I would believe if he would just tell me I could be good, too, that I could do right by my students, because for sure they were going to suffer. It__ just cause and effect. We__e at war. The military fights wars. I teach military kids. I__ never served, but now I could make a difference. I just needed my dad to tell me what to do, to tell me I was good enough to get it done.
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