I meant, really, that your lovely story helped me remember my own father, and how important family life is; how many people go off to war, leaving their frightened relatives behind, in order to protect them.

My own father left for WW II leaving my mother and her first child, me, just born, behind. He was stopped, however, during induction, because the War plant where he was working as a supervisor asked that he be exempted for their war efforts. My mother was crying and missing him, and suddenly he was back home with his suitcase! I can't even imagine her joy.