The following is supposedly a true story relating a situation that actually occurred during the war.
During the Persian Gulf War, I was assigned to go to Saudi Arabia. As I was saying good-bye to my family, my three-year-old son, Christopher, was holding on to my leg and pleading with me not to leave. «No, Daddy, please don’t go!» he kept repeating.
We were beginning to make a scene when my wife, desperate to calm him, said, «Let Daddy go and I’ll take you to get a pizza.»
Immediately, Christopher loosened his death grip, stepped back and in a calm voice said, «‘Bye, Daddy.»
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