Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Rebecca frankel is the author of war dogs. Ms. Frankel, whats on the cover of your book . So this is a handler and his dog, and theyre doing a Training Exercise for a mission that they might have to do in afghanistan or iraq which does include a drop from a helicopter. What sparked you to write about war dogs . My job in foreign policy, weve been writing about the iraq war for as long as its been going on and i really love dogs. So as i was looking at photos coming in off the wire, i saw this one photo that sort of stood out as different in afghanistan, and it was because there were these marines and their bombsniffing dogs, and they were just hanging out, and everyone looked very happy. Theres a very strong contrast to the unfortunate photos that are more gritty and more gory. So tom suggested that we partner in [inaudible] and i did that for about four years an
[applause] thank you very much. Thank you for coming today. [applause] i want to thank the Miamidade College for hosting us here today. Im proud to be here. I said this a week ago at an event we did hear with Small Businesses. I dont know if any other institution in america that has opened the door to more American Dreams than Miamidade College has and its a true treasure for our community and dr. Predrawns leadership is a true treasure and we thank you for your service to our committee and our country. I want to spend a few minutes talking about the book. The title of the book is American Dreams. American dream has nothing to do with how much money you make. The American Dream isnt about getting rich although that may be your dream and a lot of americans a lot of americans would dream that. American dream is about achieving happiness as we define it. For most people the American Dream and happiness is about simple things like owning a home in a safe and stable neighborhood being able