By The New York Times 1/3/2014
“Sitting in the audience as I watched my oldest daughter in her first kindergarten play, I felt as if I had finally become the man that my family needed me to be, that I was doing just what they needed me to be doing: to just be there.”
Read the entire article: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/reclaiming-fatherhood-after-afghanistan/