To understand my dad, I needed to learn about the day he was shot

Anthony Shadid receives care after being shot in the shoulder in Ramallah in 2002 [Timothy Fadek/Corbis via Getty Images]

“Shoulders!” I begged. “Shoulders! Shoulders!”

As a child, I loved to ride on my father’s shoulders. Sitting up there, I rubbed the bald spot on his head. “From seeing too much,” he explained of the hair loss.