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 Kime Senior 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 with each other, just kind of connect and i began posting on that list. On 9 11 everything change. My son had gone to a Peacetime Navy and with in a few short hours everything changed and i began to write more. I would write about being encouraged and to remember our roots and ultima
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 paypal. You say he arrived in the country with 100 in his pocket. Born in south africa. Have his family is canadian
Next step to discusses his novel about afghanistan following the u. S. Invasion. The book is green and blue. Mr. Ackerman is in afghanistan and iraq war veteran. He spoke at Johns Hopkins university in baltimore. Or guest tonight is elliot ackerman. Hes a decorated decorated veteran of United States marine corps and a writer whose work has been published in the new yorker along with the accomplishments the atlantic the times and the new republic among others. Mr. Ackerman was introduced to the daily beast and a member of the council of foreign relations. He served as a white house fellow in the abundant prior to that he spent eight years as an infantry and special operations officer. He served multiple tours of duty in the middle east and southwest asia and the Marine Corps Special Operations Team leader operated as a primary combat advisor to 710 Afghan Commando battalion responsible for capture operations and senior taliban leadership. Also let a 75 man platoon that aided in relief o
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 listserv. Along came 9 11 and everything changed. My son had gone to Peacetime Navy and within a few short hours everything changed. So i began to write more. I would wri
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 family and so i did and a parent said no you need to do more than that with this and the result was the book be safe, love mom amilitary moms storiesof courage, comfor