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And now after words on booktv Elaine Lowry Brye mother of four military officers talk about what families go to during times of deployment, she discusses her book be safe, love mom a military moms stories of courage, comfort, and surviving life on the homefront with Patricia KimeSenior Writer for military times. Welcome. I am here with Elaine Lowry Brye to discuss safe, love mom a military moms stories of courage, comfort, and surviving life on the homefront. Welcome to washington. Thank you for being here to talk with me about it. Host tell me a bit about your book. Guest i never intended to write a book. What happened was in 2001, my oldest son headed to the Naval Academy and at that time to communicate w ....
It was around 1994, the answer to the ageold problem, how do ive findi find a pizza place next to my dorm room, turn by turn directions. He ended up selling that company for 300 million. That is what set him on his way. Quite what did he do with that 20 million . He sat back and thought about an industry that needed a kick in the pants. He worked at a bank as an intern. They were dumb and kind of herd mentality. Early days of the internet, and he thought to do an online Financial System for everything. Then it morphed into paypal. Often cited as the founder of paypal. Well, they are both cofounders anyway. In the same building there is another company which was when he started with another stanford graduate. Two companies in one building that were spending each other to death. They would tempt people to use their service. A lot of fraud. They come up with a Service Called p ....
And now after words on booktv. Elaine lowry brye the mother of four military officers talks about what families go through during times of deployment. She discusses her book be safe love mom with Patricia Kime senior military writer for military times. Host welcome. I am here with Elaine Lowry Brye to discuss her new book be safe, love mom a military moms stories of courage, comfort and surviving life on the homefront. Welcome to washington. Guest thank you so much and thank you so much are being here to talk with me about it. Host tell me a bit about your book. Guest i never intended to write a book. What happened was in 2001 my oldest son headed off to the Naval Academy and at that time there was a place where parents could communicate with each other and engage in just kind of connect and so i began posting on that l ....
That started a series of 14 years of me advising and encouraging and supporting the Naval Academy. Through this time i had two more children who decided to apply at the Naval Academy but now i had children on active duty. And so many parents say that you need to write this all down until after my husbands company declared bankruptcy, he ended up working for an airline in afghanistan and i followed him and i taught for a year in afghanistan, had a unique perspective of being a mom who have had children to play to afghanistan and now i was there at the same time that the rebels decided to join the military not through the Naval Academy and now i have four children while serving i have been in a war zone and when i came back people were saying that you need to write this down and i thought, well, i will write it down for my fa ....