American families shattered by the Iraq War face an enduring sense of absence and the endless quest to understand their parents’ legacies.
The Hopi people strive for harmony, Whiterock explains, adding that, because Piestewa’s final moments were not a violent struggle for survival, there is some comfort, however small, knowing that she died trying to help her friends escape.
College, an unrealized dream for Piestewa, would prove another salvation. Whiterock works at his alma mater, Northern Arizona University, as a program coordinator helping military veterans navigate the complexities that can accompany a transition away from the typical soldier’s strict, regimented lifestyle. “It was her legacy to give back,” he says, adding, “I wanted to follow her footsteps, in my own way.”Victor W.
At first, the sisters were adamant about returning to school, she said, but that quickly changed. Everyone there knew Coach Jeffries. When his death was announced over the intercom, Jeffries-Cobb wilted at the unanticipated gesture, sobbing into her gray hoodie. The kids, she says, know about their grandfather, even though they never met him. Still, there is a void, she says, that even her 4-year-old daughter, Aidan, can feel when asking about the man she calls Babu.Erik Suarez del Solar’s only memory of his father is so faint it’s almost a distant dream: A slim, dark-eyed man, not quite old enough to buy a beer, tucking him into a car seat somewhere on the West Coast.
him aside to tell him how he was just like the dad he never fully met. His appearance. His habits. Even his love of wrestling.“I hate when my family compares me to him all the time. Like, ‘You’re the spitting image of your dad,’” he says. “I’m my own person. I’m not him.” The hurt, he explains, manifests whenever he contemplates what never was. No dad to teach him the responsibilities of becoming a man. The apathetic stepfather who abandoned him and his mom. The family struggled, Suarez says, because it was never truly whole again.
Adam King struggled with what he saw and experienced on his first combat tour as an infantryman, Kira King
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