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question nobody asked. i get asked one question all the time and it's never, not been asked, knowing you asked. the question i get asked all the time is, how do you go from being a seal team six sniper to being a coward after taking care of people? does anybody here know that? it's the same job. you just put people out of their misery in a different way. [laughter] thank you, guys. >> chuck hagel will deliver his first major address as defense secretary did at the national defense university in washington. we will have live coverage beginning at 12:30 p.m. eastern time on c-span, and...

benjamin busch served the tours in iraq as a marine corps infantry officer. he recounts his childhood, his military career and adjustment to life upon his return from iraq next on booktv. this is just over an hour. >> thank you so much for coming out and supporting independent bookstores and in support of books. i wrote a book, kind of shocked actually, but it's my great pleasure tonight my editor mcclelland who was pivotal in keeping under control as i tried to craft perhaps the most unlikely structured book in the history of writing where i am tempted to replicate fairly closely th...

>> i am going to read a couple of small selections from my book, which will give you a look. i exist in this book is a messenger. it's not a portrait of me and my family, it's not a biography. it is a portrait of my perspective and what is most important. what is most important is the reader. hopefully what i have done will guide you into your own memory. this is a book of memory. the power of the child and the child's belief. and how that child actors and i live on jan -- how that child echoes in our lives. we are very much a product of who we have always been, and most people who k...

dangerous man is in the house, my editor matt, who was keeping me under control as i tried to craft perhaps the most unlikely structured book in the history of writing where i attempted to replicate very closely the way we remember which of course has no chronology, and she was kind enough to suggest each chapter might begin and chronologically progress towards its end, which is how it is in its final form. each chapter does reset to childhood following the themes. it does replicate in some ways the pathways we remember, and that's how this book was built through the elements and fol...

i've got two kids myself, and i'm never going to push 'em towards the military, and i'm never going to push 'em away because one great thing, the military, it is a volunteer force. and if you're going to be there, i want it to be because you want it. and you're going to understand that honor that goes into serving your country. as far as preparing them, i mean, they need to know that when you sign up to go into the military, there's a very high likelihood -- especially now -- you're going to go to war. so just prepare yourself that you may be called upon by your country to put your l...