Grief and purpose. The knock at the door. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome. I want to welcome everyone to the Doylestown Book shop. We, the entire staff, are all happy to have you here and its such an honor to host this event. My name is glenda chiles, im the owner of the book shop. Were so happy to be in a community that supports our local businesses as well as our local nonprofits and this is a special one today. So, its my honor to introduce you to the authors of this book. Well start with briryan manion she has supported our families of fallen heroes. Inspired by the character, leadership and sacrifice of her brother, First Lieutenant Travis Manion who made the ultimate sacrifice in iraq on april 29th, 2007. Serving as the president of Travis Manion foundation since 2012, ryan leads a National Movement focused on assisting veterans and families of the fallen to take the next step in their personal journeys and inspiring the next generation of leaders. And in 2015, she r
Well start with brian. Shes dedicated her life to supporting our nations military, veterans and families of fallen heroes. Shes inspired by the character, leadership and sacrifice of her brother, First Lieutenant travis, who made the ultimate sacrifice in iraq aprilde 29, 2007. Serving as a president of the foundation since 2012, leading a National Union focusing on veterans and families of the fallen to take the next steps in the personal journeys the next generation of leaders. 2015, she received the president s lifetime achievemeni award for volunteer service. In 2016, ryanci took an official appointment to serve on the remember and explore subcommittee and the honor subcommittee for the Advisory Committee Arlington National cemetery. Ryan also serves as a board member of the National Association of Veterans Serving Organization as well as on the Advisory Board for the global war on terror, memorial foundation. Ryan resides right here with her husband and three children, where she c
Happy to have you here in such an honor to host this event. My name is glenda childs, i own the bookshop. We are happy to be in a community that supports our local businesses as well as local nonprofits so this is a special one today so it is my honor to introduce you to the authors of this book. I will start with ryan marion who dedicated her life to supporting the nations military, veterans and families, she was inspired by the character, leadership and sacrifice of her brother, travis, who made the ultimate sacrifice iraq on april 20 ninth 2007. Ryan leads a National Movement focused on assisting veterans and families of the fallen to take the next step in their personal journeys and inspiring the next generation of leaders. In 2015 she received the president s Lifetime Achievement award for volunteer service. In 2016, ryan marion took an official appointment to the remember an explosive committee and for the Advisory Committee at Arlington National cemetery. She also serves as boar
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Its my honor to introduce our next speaker, colonel francis oconnor, m. D. , whos the professor and chair of military and emergency medicine. If you never been there actually worth a visit here francis took me around and its really a great place where we have training, medical training for those are going to be serving in our country and providing service to the men and women who serve in a country. Hes also a leading voice for exertional illness, sickle cell trait. Hes leading a major study and internist and really sicklecell trait even better and he certainly has been a mentor and a friend to john and me and others at the ncaa and trying to guide us to go in the right direction. So thank you for coming here today. Well, thank you. Its an absolute honor to be here to honor derek sheely. As a father of three sons im still shaken. Ms. Sheely, listening to your words and your passion, i will not forget. I will not forget. Im going to be moving away from cardiac and we will talk about som