For equality. Were pleased to have here and without further adieu hegar. Thank you so much and thank you to book people. You have been so wonderful and warm and i keep telling everybody, wherever you bought your book, return and it buy imfrom book people. So thank you yall so much. Ive been speaking for seven years and so nervous right now because im sieging to a bunch of people who i know and love and respect, many of whom are in the audience are toastmasters so i would ask you to please not evaluate this speech. So im just blown away by how many people are here and i kind of just want to save all the time just oneonone if a everybody because a lot of you if i have seen in a while about my mom wanted know speck for an hour and then someone else told me, be brief, be funny, be seated. So im going try to find where in between those two. So read just a short excerpt from the book, and then well talk for like six or seven minutes and then get to the signing. A brief disclaimer with give t
Tonighting we have m. J. Hegar with her book, shoot like a girl that details her time in afghanistan [cheers and applause] and her fight to eliminate the militarys Ground Combat exclusion policy which kept female Armed Service members from officially serving in combat roles. Shelys in austin with her lives in austin with her family and gives back to herral that matter by mentoring cadets. She continues to speak about her fight for increased military effectively through equality. We are so pleased to have her tonight, so without further ado, m. J. Hegar. [cheers and applause] thank you so much. And thank you to book people. You guys have been so wonderful and warm. I keep telling everybody, wherever you bought your book, return it and buy it from book people. Thank you all so much to. Be i am so nervous right now because im speaking to a wunsch of people who bunch of people who i know and love and respect, many of whom who are toastmasters. So i would ask you to not evaluate this speech