A life for war

My mom was devastated, but I only knew that because I saw when they came in. It was a man in a uniform and a hat that covered his eyes, or at least from the angle that I was looking. He had two other men beside him, they too had suits and swords on the right side of their waist. It took me some time to notice but the man in the hat had a sword and a uniform in his hands. I didn't recognize it then, but my mother did. It was dad's.