Anchor and Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service

In this memoir, a woman shares her conflicted feelings about her son volunteering for military service.

When she was a young mother, Kate Braestrup discovered the fierce protectiveness that accompanies parenthood. In the intervening years-through mourning her husband and the joy of remarriage and a blended family-Kate has absorbed the rewards and complications of that spirit. But when her eldest son joins the Marines, Kate is at a crossroads: Can she reconcile her desire to protect her child...