Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.