Episode 230 - Michelle Black

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

When Green Beret Bryan Black was killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, his wife Michelle saw her worst nightmare become a reality. She was left alone with her grief and with two young sons to raise. But what followed Bryan's death was an even more difficult journey for the young widow. After receiving very few details about the attack that took her husband's life, it was up to Michelle to find answers. It became her mission to learn the truth about that day in Niger--and her book, Sacrifice, is the result of that mission.

After interviewing the survivors of a deadly ambush, it became clear to Michelle that the deaths of her husband and several soldiers were avoidable – mistakes were made. This Gold Star widow is on a quest to learn the truth about her husband’s death, but military officials refuse to provide details. In the process, she has learned that there are careers being protected by masking the truth.

As a result, Michelle has written the book Sacrifice: A Gold Star Widow’s Fight for the Truth, in an effort to bring attention to the inconsistent lies of the military and the challenges in learning the real facts.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
0:02.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Brown Water,
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0:58.7	My guest today is Michelle Black. And she is an author among many other things. Her book is called
1:05.5	Sacrifice, a Gold Star Widow's fight for the truth. Now, obviously the title of the book
1:12.3	let you know that she is a Gold Star Widow. She lost her husband, Brian, who was a green beret.
1:17.6	Okay. He was killed in Niger, Africa and an ambush that unfortunately there is video of it exists
1:26.0	and it hit the mainstream media. Now, the podcast isn't necessarily about that. We talk about that
1:31.4	a little bit. It's more about Michelle's fight to understand and determine the actual truth of
1:40.5	what happened on the ground in the days leading up to. And then the moments of the ambush that
1:47.4	took her husband's life. We get pretty deeply into it. The book was fantastic. It was a difficult
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