'Your father was a good man -- growing up without him is going to be hard. It is going to hurt. You will feel alone, out to sea, with no shore in site; you'll wonder, why me? Why him? Remember, you have warrior's blood in your veins -- the code that made your father who he was is the same code that will make you a man he will admire. Respect.

Put your pain in a box -- lock it down; like those people in those paintings your father used to like. Real men, made up of boxes -- chambers of loss and triumph of hurt and hope and love. No one is stronger or more dangerous than who can harness his emotions -- his past.

Use it as fuel, as ammunition as ink to write the most important letter of your life"

- Chief Dave, Seal Team SEVEN, Act of Valor, in a letter to the son of slain SEAL, Lieutenant Rorke.