My daughter's essay, "My Special Forces Dad," won an award. That very day, her classmates stripped her and forced her to kneel in the snow on the sports field.
By the time I got there, she was covered in bruises, barely conscious as she looked at me.
"Mom, I have a dad. My dad is a hero. He didn't abandon me, right...?"
I burst into tears and went to find the principal, but I was thrown out of the school.
"All that crying and carrying on, just because you want money? A kid without a father is worthless. No wonder my son bullies your daughter and nobody else."
I went to a lawyer to file a complaint, but he refused with a troubled expression.
"I want to help you, but their family has people in the courthouse. There's nothing I can do."
The bully's family cornered me outside my home.
"Calling the police won't help! You've got no power or connections. How are you going to fight me? Let anyone in this world try to stop me!"
After every attempt to get help failed, I took my husband's ashes and knelt outside the military zone where he had died in service.
When my husband died, everyone in the military district had said through tear-filled eyes that he was a great hero of our country.
Now the hero's child was fighting for her life in the hospital, and I had no choice but to bring out everything my husband had earned in his lifetime.
I want to ask: Can the medals my husband traded his life for save my daughter's life? Can they win her fair treatment?
