Review: I liked it and it had me self-examining and thinking...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2014
I found it interesting.  I enjoyed his account of "adopting" 2 little girls w/in his school yr. of sports and after school.  It ended w/sadness.I found him very sensitive to the effects of "9/11" which is a cause of wonderment to me as I didn't have the type of feelings afterward when months, yr.s pasted, that he had.  I attribute it to his being in a foreign military education facilities for USA personnel & their families.  When the facilities would go on extra "guard" in reaction to various threats, it naturally kept bringing the memories back to him and the children he taught.He empathized deeply w/the 2 little girls & the other students because of their parents' military service.  He struggled, too, in how to answer their "fear" questions.  He answered like his father did w/him, and he came to the realization of "why" his father's answers were avoidance ones.He showed how it really is a sacrifice for the families, & the one/s deployed.  He, also, showed how frightening the moves to different countries, and deployments are for their children when a parent/s are forced to leave family behind in safety.I have not been in that type of situation so his writings brought the problems of military, & family life to the forefront for me.It seemed to me (& perhaps to no other) the author's inner-being felt, to me, like an "empty darkness" in the way he expressed himself with his writing.My heart goes out to him!  I hope that even though he questioned "God's existence" and "Him being a loving God" that he could find that God truly is a loving God.  Then with the fact of that truth, the author would know God and his inner-being will be filled with His Light and Presence.