The author Wes Moore's father worked as a broadcast journalist. He died of a rare virus when Wes was just three years old. After his father's death, Wes's mom took him and his two siblings to live with her parents in the Bronx.
The lack of a father had a negative impact on Wes when he was growing up. He would often skip school, hang out with the wrong crowd, and get into trouble with the authorities. At the age of 12, Wes was caught spraying graffiti, which proved to be the last straw as far as his mom was concerned. Realizing that what her errant son needed most of all was a good, hard dose of discipline, she packed him off to military school. Little did Wes know it at the time, but his mom's wise decision would change his life forever—and for the better, too.
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