Summary of Dana Canedy's A Journal for Jordan

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I want to tell you about your father’s journal, which he wrote while he was in Iraq. He wanted to leave you messages about how to live your life, and he wanted to tell you how much he loved us.
#2 I struggled to understand what motivated the man who had for so long dreamed of your birth but chose to miss it because he believed his soldiers needed him more. He was devoted to his troops, but never spoke of the war as being about weapons of mass destruction or an axis of evil.
#3 Your father was an extraordinarily disciplined man, who believed that sweating on a five-mile run was the best way to shake a cold. He loved to feed me champagne, popcorn, and chocolate in bed. He was also shy, and simple things brought him pleasure.
#4 The journal was written by your father while he was at war, and it was a keepsake for his son. He wrote about the dangers he was facing and the things he missed, and he wrote longingly about you.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Personal Memoirs
• Biography
• Autobiography
• Sexualité
• sexualité
• Sexualité

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822544253
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Dana Canedy's A Journal for Jordan
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I want to tell you about your father’s journal, which he wrote while he was in Iraq. He wanted to leave you messages about how to live your life, and he wanted to tell you how much he loved us.

#2

I struggled to understand what motivated the man who had for so long dreamed of your birth but chose to miss it because he believed his soldiers needed him more. He was devoted to his troops, but never spoke of the war as being about weapons of mass destruction or an axis of evil.

#3

Your father was an extraordinarily disciplined man, who believed that sweating on a five-mile run was the best way to shake a cold. He loved to feed me champagne, popcorn, and chocolate in bed. He was also shy, and simple things brought him pleasure.

#4

The journal was written by your father while he was at war, and it was a keepsake for his son. He wrote about the dangers he was facing and the things he missed, and he wrote longingly about you.

#5

Growing up, I was always trying to be the perfect daughter, but my family’s dysfunction made that difficult. I learned from my father that a father never eats all of the food on his plate; he saves some for his children who might still be hungry after the pot of chili or butter beans runs out.

#6

I learned about discipline from my father, who was as strict with himself as he was with us. I did not get the attention I craved from my mother, who was not comfortable showing affection. I learned to provide whatever nurturing my parents could not.

#7

I was thirty-three when I went home to visit my father on Father’s Day 1998. I was met by a gorgeous man who was holding a framed picture. I could not help but stare. I did not quite remember what I noticed first, but the gentle face and sculpted body made my navel flutter.

#8

I met a man named Charles, who was an artist, and I asked him to give me a ride to my hotel. He was quiet and didn’t speak much, and I felt like he was the complete opposite of the gregarious alpha men I was used to.

#9

I was born a month premature, and I have always been in a hurry. I wanted a instant connection with Charles, and I thought he might be interested in me, so I asked him out. He was divorcing his wife.

#10

I knew I was getting ahead of myself, but I was drawn to Charles. I had never wanted to pack up my home every few years to follow a man to another military base. I had grown up with the understanding that the military man’s life came first, even when that required his wife to be a single parent for a year while he served a hardship tour of duty in Korea.

#11

Being an army brat was not all bad. We played kickball with the other brats on the block until the streetlights came on. But I never got used to playmates packing up and leaving when their fathers got orders to report to Georgia or Germany.

#12

I met Charles, a sergeant first class, who helped run a platoon. He taught soldiers military doctrine and actually enjoyed leading them on uphill hikes carrying twenty pounds of equipment in the summer heat.

#13

Charles King, your father, was a quiet and sensitive man, traits he got from his mother.