Airforce veteran Bishwanath Sinha... my dad

I remember as a child I was chased by an angry bull

and I ran straight towards him crying

He held me in his arms and said wipe those tears off. You're a man.

I guess I stopped crying because I wanted to be like him.

Tough and strong

So no matter how hard you've taken a hit...No tears

And so I hid. I hid my pain like dad would want me to...

I did not want him to see my wounds, that I'm weak

I was being a man.

But this time he didn't ask me to wipe my tears off

That moment changed it all

That's the day we both realized that showing what you really feel

doesn't make you less of a man

Raising a strong boy also meant telling him it was ok.

It was ok for boys to cry

Men can cry.

Even soldiers can cry.

Because our pain reveals the best in us.