BOB BROWN: Theft of the Heroic Life in America: Part II: The Fiery Furnace—Love and Faith Inseparable

BOB BROWN: Theft of the Heroic Life in America: Part II: The Fiery Furnace—Love and Faith Inseparable

By modern standards of childhood development, my father was a failure. He was taciturn, dominated by my mother, and lacked the self-confidence typically prescribed for successful fathers.  He never complained. He spent his hours with a pipe and a can of Sir Walter Raleigh tobacco, taking me to cowboy movies and showing me how to tie my shoes.  When I played high school football, he never attended. I only learned much later that he sat at home, t…