It was two days after my son Payton turned two, a day that I was dreading for the unknowns in our future. On this day my husband, Dustin, was deployed for a one year tour in Afghanistan. How do you explain to a 2 year old that his dad was going to fight for our country, and he would be gone for a long time? Payton received a G.I. Joe doll for his birthday and immediately called him "Dad." From that day on, "Dad" was with us everywhere we went...