Thoughts on Petraeus - a Central Figure in "Tell My Sons"

Lt. Col. Mark Weber, a former aide to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, has become known in Minnesota as a celebrated war veteran who's dying of cancer and wants to pass along his life story and his life's vision to his young sons and others.

There was much publicity last summer when the Minnesota National Guard lieutenant colonel and his son, Matt, a Rosemount High School junior, sang the emotional "Tell My Father," a song from the Broadway musical “The Civil War” that recounts the message that a Union soldier dying on the field of battle wanted carried to his father.

Weber was honored by many of the Army's top generals who came to Rosemount in August to present him with...

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