i am here with elaine lowry brye to discuss safe, love mom: a military mom's stories of courage, comfort, and surviving life on the homefront". welcome to washington. >> thank you for 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 to the naval academy and at that time to communicate with each other, just kind of connect and i began posting on that list. on 9/11 everything change. my son had gone to a peacetime navy and with in a few short hours everything changed and i began to write more. i would write about being encouraged and to remember our roots and ultimately imus asked to become a moderator suppose that started a series of 14 years of me advising, encouraging and supporting naval academy parents. through this time i had two more children who decided to apply and attend the naval academy's so as the years went by, not only did i have children at the naval academy, now head on active duty and parents that you need to write this down in the book, write this all d