When Robin Wright began covering war zones, her father opened up about his experiences during the Second World War. He had been one of the soldiers at Ohrdruf, the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by American troops.
As my sister, Jana, tells it, my father and I had one long conversation that spanned thirty-four years. “From the time I remember, you and dad were always talking—about the world, about sports, about everything,” she told me recently. My dad often told us that he assumed that he would have sons, but he ended up with girls. He eventually adjusted. I was his firstborn; I became his mission.
My father read to me when I was a small child and would add his own interpretations. “Cinderella” was about injustice, “Snow White” about the corruption of power and privilege, and “The Wizard of Oz” about individual rights. I went to the University of Michigan, my home-town school, and during my sophomore year I bumped into a classmate who urged me to go with her to the Michigan, the student paper, to hear the editors’ beginning-of-semester spiel. I had no interest but she was quite insistent. None of the editors inspired me until I heard the sports editor—and I had an epiphany. I would pull a prank on my father. I would write one article, just one, on sports. Of course, the surprise was on me. I kept on writing.
In 1976, I came home for a visit after a particularly harrowing experience. I had been one of some two dozen people—out of over three hundred—who survived a battle during the Angolan Civil War. I had fled on a little tugboat across the Congo River. My father served in the Second World War, although he never talked about it when I was growing up. But during that trip home he told me about being at Ohrdruf, the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by American troops.
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