Beau Wise was a five-year-old boy growing up in El Dorado, Arkansas, he would pull his mattress into the shared bedroom of his older brothers, Jeremy, 15, and Ben, 12, and sleep between their tall pine beds: ‘They were my heroes,’ he remembers.Each night, the three brothers were told a military story by their mother, Mary, known for her encyclopedic knowledge of American conflicts.
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