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When grandchildren discover difficult truths about grandparents they never met

I found my teenage son reading my dad's old journals from when he was deployed overseas and now he's asking questions about war that I don't know how to answer.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The stories we inherit from the dead come with moral complexities we are unprepared to navigate with the next generation.

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