Members of the congress, i have the great and personal pleasure the high privilege, and the distinct honor of presenting to you the president of the United States. [applause] mr. Speaker mr. President members of the congress, my fellow americans, on this hill which was my home i am stirred by old friendships. Though total agreement between the executive and the congress is impossible, total respect is important. I am proud to be among my colleagues the congress, whose legacy to their trust is their loyalty to their nation. I am not unaware of the inner emotions of the new members of this body tonight. 28 years ago, i felt as you do now. You will soon learn that you are among men whose first love is their country. Men who try each day to do as best they can what they believe is right. We are entering the third century of the pursuit of american union. 200 years ago, in 1765, nine assemblied colonies first joined together to demand freedom from arbitrary power. For the first century, we
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
On the homefront. Welcome to washington. Guest thank you so much for being here to talk with me about it. So, tell me a bit about your book. Guest i never intended to write a book. My oldest son headed off to the Naval Academy and at that time there were parents to communicate with each other and engage and just kind of connect so i began posting on that list and everything changed. My son had gone to a Peacetime Navy and within a few short hours everything changed. And so i began to write more. Ultimately i was asked to become a moderator and that started with me encouraging and supporting the navy Academy Parents through the time i have two more had two more children who decided to apply and attend the Naval Academy and so as the years went by not only did i have them i had that i have been on active duty and so they kept saying you need to write this all down in the book and as our life continued in its twists and turns, my husband after his airline declared bankruptcy he worked for
Friends and family members that were there with us doing this because based on what ive read, human memory is pretty fallible. Eyewitness testimony for example, is notoriously sketchy. Rather than assuming that they have a perfect memory of the past decade, i went out and if you could of the people who were there to get their perception of what happened and check it against my own. And tried to use so the combination of my own members, things i wrote at the time, and interviews of other people to make sure i had as accurate a picture as possible. Thank you. Welcome back. I had a question to if you could maybe contrast your experience with bryant. You guys are doing it at the same time figure two different experiences, yet you are transitioning your healing to imagine there were some things that were the same in somethings different. Im curious whether those gel and michigan and whether they were different. Were you able to provide support for them what he its not provide support for yo