What was your hardest phone calls to get and make in your lifetime?
1. The first was taking the phone call in the morning from an Ohio State Trooper to tell me about my son's suicide.
2. The second was to notify my family and friends them the phone call to my ex-wife about our son's death.
3. The last was getting a phone call out of the blue from a dear friend and soldier I mentored that turned the Army into a career like I had. He shared with me that he was retired medically with stage four brain cancer. I told him I would fly out to California to see him, and he told me he did not want me to do so, and to just remember him as he was when we served together. And that it was better he got the cancer instead of me because he said I could not handle it. I was crushed as we said our final goodbyes.
4. Calling my Army mentor's son and wife after his sudden heart attack and death.
2. The second was to notify my family and friends them the phone call to my ex-wife about our son's death.
3. The last was getting a phone call out of the blue from a dear friend and soldier I mentored that turned the Army into a career like I had. He shared with me that he was retired medically with stage four brain cancer. I told him I would fly out to California to see him, and he told me he did not want me to do so, and to just remember him as he was when we served together. And that it was better he got the cancer instead of me because he said I could not handle it. I was crushed as we said our final goodbyes.
4. Calling my Army mentor's son and wife after his sudden heart attack and death.
