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A Soldier's Daughter

NPR

Published April 25, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Commentator Karen Spears Zacharias is the daughter of an American soldier who was killed in Vietnam. She remembers how her mother held their family together after her father's death. Zacharias is the author of Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam — and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together.

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