“Leaving them is not something I’m ecstatic about, to be sure. I’m sorry Nancy has to parent alone for a year—hopefully it’s just a year.” He was fully aware that the prior JAG officer attached to the Third Armored was in constant combat, and that other officers in that regiment had been killed in the last deployment. “But my kids do need to understand the importance of a call. If you’re called to do something—committed to following through on your words—then sometimes, that is bigger than what we want to do. I hope my children grow up understanding that God may call them to do things that
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