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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to software, radio, software, radio on time on target. I'm

your host this afternoon, Steve Balsberry. We have a very special guest with us today,

Michelle Black. Many of you may have already heard about her book that just came out, it's

called Sacrifice. We did a book review on that on the website. In Michelle's graciously

agreed to come on the podcast with us, she's going to talk to us about her book. She's going to

talk to us obviously about her husband, Brian, who was killed in action in Niger back in 2017.

We're going to talk all about that, and she'll fill us in on everything that's going on with

her in the book. Before we go any further, I want to welcome Michelle to the podcast. Michelle,

thanks for taking the time with us this afternoon. We really appreciate it.

Absolutely. Thank you for having me on, Steve. I'm so glad to be here.

Well, thank you. About your book, I know it's kind of a memoir of not only your life as you go into

the book about your life with your husband as you guys met all the way through everything that

happened, but I think when after I read this, I think this is very important, not only from the

historical fact and what your family and the other families of the SF team went through,

but this is mainly to me. It's about the sacrifice of families and it shows how deep

our families are impacted, not only just when somebody gets hurt or killed in action,

but what you've, you know, go through and it's easy for the SF guys, you know, because we go out

and, you know, we're obsessed with the mission that we're gone. And, you know, we're focused on

that, but the families back home, you guys have to deal with the unknown and you're always thinking

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