Coming Home

Fathers among sailors returning to families in northern California after months at sea were greeted by children they had not been in hospitals to see born and by t-shirts reading "My Dad Is My Hero" and "My Dad Rocks."

Coincidentally, new in the world of books is the revelation that Dick Cheney's dad was in the U.S. Navy during World War II and his return inspired the future VPOTUS to believe for many years that the U.S. Navy intermittently turned him into a bird. Indubitably, this explains so much ... but what?

** War for dads is always "war-torn." **