Operation Enduring Freedom

The CIA man was being brought to a funeral home near Arlington National Cemetery, so the distraught father shuttered his realty office in this three-stoplight town and flew up to the nation's capital. Running through his mind, he would say later, was Mike's admonition, "Daddy, don't ever believe I'm dead till you see my body." There in the casket lay Mike, and the father reached in and ran his hands across his son's forehead.