&quot;This book is a gift, and not only to Jordan.&quot;<i>&#8211;USA Today<br></i><br>In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadside bomb on October 14, 2006. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. <i>A Journal for Jordan</i> is a mother&#8217;s letter to her son about the father he lost before he could even speak&#8211;including a fiercely honest account of her search for answers about Charles&#8217;s death. It is also a father&#8217;s advice and prayers for the son he will never know. Finally, this is the story of Dana and Charles together&#8211;two seemingly mismatched souls who loved each other deeply and lost each other too soon.