Soldiers’ families make sacrifices. Loved ones are called to war, and families are moved to military bases around the world. For Mary Lou Darst, finding her father’s World War II diary after he died made her childhood and her relationship with him clearer. “My father was away on assignment often,” Darst says. “When he returned, or we went to join him, my brother and I had grown up since he last saw us. He had changed as well and we didn’t know each other.” In her book, War Ready, In My Father’s Shadow, Darst tells how war affected the entire family, especially her father. “My relationship
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