New York Woman Writes Books to Help Kids with Parents in the Military
BY STEPHANIE HEINATZ Newport News, Va., Daily Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – (KRT) – For the nearly three years that Michelle Ferguson-Cohen’s Army father was deployed to Vietnam, Cohen had a hard time relating to other kids. “He was gone off and on from the time I was 3 until I was 6,” she said. “Listening to kids tell you that soldiers are nothing but baby killers was hard to deal with.” Cohen said it was hard to understand. Her father wasn’t a killer. He was her daddy. Her hero. “Only as an adult did I realize the sacrifice and commitment that my parents made and how my mother made everything seem so normal,” Cohen said. Now, she said, she has an “awe and respect for military parents and their commitment to raise children in the toughest situations.”