Booktopia - A Journal for Jordan, Dana Canedy, 9780733622861

A Journal for Jordan

By: Dana Canedy

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ISBN: 9780733622861

Format: Paperback
Published: February 2009

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In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a 200-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from Iraq. King, forty-eight, was killed on 14 October, 2006.

His son, Jordan, was six months old, and they had spent only two weeks together. A Journal for Jordan is a father's letter to the son he will never see again.

In it he gives his boy advice on everything from how to withstand disappointment to how to behave on a date, and his very personal and wrenching accounts of losing men in battle.

It is also a mother's search for answers. Why did King volunteer for the mission that killed him? Why was it such a struggle to accept this man she deeply loved as he was?

A Journal for Jordan is a tender introduction, a loving goodbye, and a heartrending reminder of the human cost of war.