About this Book

In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, First Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, Fourth Infantry Division, began to write what would become a 200-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from Iraq. King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006. His son, Jordan, was six months old. A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN is a fathers letter to the son he will never see wrenching accounts of losing men in battle mixed with advice on everything from how to withstand disappointment to how to behave on a date. It is also a mothers search for answers. Why did King volunteer for the mission that killed him? Why was it such a struggle to accept this man she deeply loved as he was? Optioned for film by Denzel Washington and Columbia Pictures, A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN is a tender introduction, a loving good-bye, a reporters inquiry into her soldiers life and a heartrending reminder of the human cost of war.