Be Safe, Love Mom: A Military Mom's Stories of Courage, Comfort, and Surviving Life on the Home Front
✍ Scribed by Brye, Elaine Lowry
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 523 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781610395212
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✦ Synopsis
When you enlist in the United States Military, you don't just sign yourself up for years of duty, you also commit your loved ones to a life of service all their own.
No one knows this better than Elaine Brye, an army-brat turned military wife turned military mom of four officers, each serving in a different branch of the military: Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy.
Brye's father and mother met while both serving in the U.S. Army and her childhood was that of a typical army-brat, with frequent moves--some to faraway countries--dinner-table conversations full of military lingo, an ever-present anxiety during her father's deployments to Vietnam and elsewhere, and family vacations to national monuments and battlefields. In 1976--the first year women were accepted in the service academies and ROTC--Brye herself enlisted in the Air Force, where she would later meet her husband, an Air Force pilot.
Now Elaine Brye is a mom to four military officers,...