Meet Robby the C Beth Mahoney, Copyright Meet Robby the C! Robby is a military child's icon for all that is brave and proud to be American. Robby will take you on a short journey through his life as a C and the adventures of deployments. He will show you what he does during deployments, the importance of this beloved aircraft, and the understanding of a military soldier's job that touch the hearts and homes of many. Let Robby enter your homes and your hearts to help befriend your child while Daddy or Mommy is away.
Robby can relate to everything a child goes through when a loved one is deployed or on extended duty. Tony Hunter, Copyright Spectacular artwork illustrates action-packed rhyming couplets. My life as a military child. It's a team effort with a common goal; the mission is to describe what it means to be a part of a military family, what it takes to persevere when it comes to deployments, and living abroad. It's also a candid account of the military lifestyle, and how special it is to be a child of a hero. Stories and Poems for Children. Various authors, Copyright This collection of original stories and poems touches on many aspects of military life from a child's point of view.
Cindy Entin, Copyright This beautifully illustrated counting board book introduces children to the numbers 1 through 10 using poetic prose and colorful illustrations of equipment, uniforms, medals, traditions, and other mementos exclusive to the Air Force, Army, Marines or Navy community. The inside back cover of each book provides a key for parents and educators to teach children further information and facts about each item featured. Additionally, the sturdy board book format is perfect for repeated handling by young children.
These books are especially meaningful for children in military families and communities. My Own Psalm 91 Book. Peggy Joyce Ruth, Copyright Thirteen hardback pages of illlustrations and a paraphrased look at Psalm 91 by Peggy Joyce will keep even your youngest child wanting you to read to him from his very own copy! Available in 14 languages. Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own.
He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share his meals, offer a warm place to sleep, and give Nubs the kind of care and attention he had never received before.
Nubs became part of Dennis's human "pack" until duty required the Marines to relocate a full 70 miles away--without him. Nubs had no way of knowing that Marines were not allowed to have pets. So began an incredible journey that would take Nubs through a freezing desert, filled with danger tofind his friend and would lead Dennis on a mission that would touch the hearts of people all over the world. Nubs and Dennis will remind readers that friendship has the power to cross deserts, continents, and even species.
Stephanie Skolmoski, Copyright Stephanie Pickup and Marlene Lee, Copyright Robby the C Goes to Germany. Join Robby the C on his trip around the globe and learn a little more about this fantastic country. We also introduce two new CJ models, his little sister Rachel, and his little brother Alex.
Robby the C Goes to Hawaii. Our favorite C is at it again. This time Robby the C takes a trip to the beautiful islands of Hawaii! Come join Robby on this trip through tropical paradise. You will discover all the islands and exciting things to do. A simple story about a dog and a Soldier…the rescuer and the rescued.
Jeffrey Bradley, Copyright Jeff picked Rollie up at the animal shelter in Rolla, Missouri after returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom in and the pair started running together during his stateside stints in Missouri and Kansas. When Jeff deployed to Korea, Rollie patiently waited for his return.
Once he did, the two best friends did everything together, from running to kayaking to hiking. Their twosome grew by one when Jeff married his wife, Emily. The three live in Southern New Hampshire where Rollie and Jeff can be found jogging or walking the trail network around their house. Even though both of their pace has slowed, they still go side-by-side.
Johnathan Edmonds, Copyright , Ages Every book purchase comes with a free kids sticker sheet! The awesome military kid's guide to feelings. Leslie Nelson, Copyright This can include frequent moves, regularly adjusting to new schools and making new friends, absence of the military parent, increased family responsibilities, and re-establishing family roles when the deployed parent returns.
A kid's perception of an event like deployment is often very different from an adult's. Depending on their age, kids may believe they are responsible for the deployed parent going away, while this thought would never enter an adult's mind. This invaluable guide helps military kids make sense of their experiences and understand that all their feelings are normal and okay, even the challenging ones. An excited young boy's wildest dreams come true when he discovers a stray tank at the park and takes it home as a pet.
Over the course of the next week and through a series of adventures and mishaps, he starts to realize that tanks may not make good pets after all. A creative, educational book for children with vivid and humorous illustrations. That Plane, This Plane. Tim Steiner, Copyright Try to keep up with these airplanes as they learn and turn through the aviation world. Written and illustrated by an aviator with pilots in mind, these fun illustrations compare and contrast airplanes of all sorts.
Simple text and easy-reading rhymes make this the perfect book for every family and a must-have for aviation enthusiasts. Jets, props, new and old--Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marine--find all of the references and name the planes like only an aviator could. Check your knowledge with the illustrated list at the end. The ABCs of the Army. Maria Cordova, Copyright From Airborne to June 14, to Woobie and Zonk!?
What is a Woobie? And what is Zonk!? Patrice Karst, Copyright They asked with a puzzled look to which Mom replied, "An Invisible String made of love. A story that teaches of the tie that really binds. The Invisible String reaches from heart to heart. Does everybody have an Invisible String? How far does it reach, anyway? Does it ever go away? Read all about it! Here is a warm and delightful lesson teaching young and old that we aren't ever really alone and reminding children and adults!
Even though you can't see it with your eyes, you can feel it deep in your heart, and know that you are always connected to the ones you love. Thus begins this heart-warming and reassuring story that addresses the issue of "separation anxiety" otherwise known as the sense of existential 'aloneness' to children of all ages. The Little Marine and the Flag. Jumping out of bed, he looks out his window over the trees to where his daddy works. As he watches, he sees a huge American flag being raised up a very tall flagpole. He loves seeing that big flag. He often tells his daddy that he wants to go see it and stand under it some day.
Marty Sederman, Seymour Epstein, Copyright Casey hates it that his father has to travel so often. But this time Dad leaves a special gift that will help Casey cope with his absence and future trips as well. This upbeat and delightfully illustrated book contains many valuable tips for families in which a parent is frequently away from home.
The Navy's Night Before Christmas. Trish Holland and Christine Ford, Copyright Not a creature was stirring to windward or lee. The sailors were nestled all snug in their racks. Like orders of pancakes, so tight were the stacks. This lively and poignant tale was inspired by Clement C. The Night Before Christmas in the Military. Shauna Mooney, Copyright Santa receives thousands of letters from children who have parents in the military. He decides this year he'll do something extra special for the troops that are away from home.
The Night Santa Got Lost: Michael Keane, Copyright The Soldiers' Night Before Christmas. This lively and poignant tale is inspired by Clement C. Moore's classic yuletide poem. We deal with the issues. I am somebody who is extremely concerned about the direction of our nation and what is going to happen to us if we continue down this pathway. And I am very hopeful that people in your business, the media, will soon recognize the role that they play in helping to restore the American dream.
And joining us now, Donald Trump, also by phone this morning. You just heard Dr. Carson respond to your Tweets from earlier in the week. Well, look, I hope it all works out for him. But he said he has pathological disease in the book. And in your book, "The Art of the Deal," you wrote a little a hyperbole never hurts.
And, by the way, my properties are some of the most valuable properties in the world, George. You know some of them. And I have some of the great properties of the world. I built an amazing company with a tremendous net worth. And I hope this works out for him, frankly. I hope that there is not going to be a problem on this. More evidence that this plane was brought down -- this Russian plane was brought down by some kind of an explosion.
Well, I think it was an explosion. There are so many different groups over there. The world is really going to be cratering. We have to stop the source of money. And the source of money is oil. And we have to knock the hell out of the oil. They have better access to internet than we do. So we'd better do something. We'd better be smart and we'd better do it right now.
And a lot of people are saying, wow, Trump actually predicted that. But I was writing about Osama bin Laden before I want to take the oil. I want the oil. They essentially went bust and it became Russia, a much smaller version, because of Afghanistan. They spent all their money. Let me ask you something that came up in this new biography of George H.
Bush by Jon Meacham this week. He -- he -- on page , it says, going back to the campaign, "The New Yorker developer, Donald Trump, mentioned his availability as a vice presidential candidate to Lee Atwater. Bush thought the overture strange and unbelievable. Well, you know, Lee Atwater was a very good friend of mine, as you may have known. He was a great guy. And, you know, I was a very political person for a long period of time.
And I was a big contributor. A lot of talk about addiction on the campaign trail lately, especially up in New Hampshire. And they became alcoholics or they started taking drugs and they became, in a way, addicted. And I have friends trying not to smoke, as an example. But you can always They are having a tremendous drug problem, a tremendous heroin problem in New Hampshire. Mexico is going to pay for the wall.
It will be built. And if you look at the kind of numbers we do in Mexico, they are making a fortune off the United States. And we will stop that problem, to a large extent. You used to think that legalization, taking the profit out, would solve that problem. What do you expect? Bernie Sanders joins us too. And all the latest on that plane crash in Egypt and the new security measures to keep our flights safe. We have the latest now on that plane crash in Egypt. Well, good morning, George. In the weeks since the plane went down, virtually every piece of intelligence gathered by the U.
Officials in Cairo Saturday for the first time described a distinct but undeterred noise heard just before the cockpit voice recorder, the CVR, stopped working. A noise was heard in the last seconds of the CVR recording. That noise is very sudden, very sharp. It has a very distinctive profile to it compared to other noises. So you can -- you can tell bombs.
Actually, they stand out. But there is already a growing consensus by those in the U. The key here was to get it on there, to corrupt somebody who was in the process that can get out on the ramp and do the kinds of things that were necessary in this case. Egyptian investigators say it still could be days more before even an initial determination of what brought down the plane is made ph , a bomb and a delay, a delay that has caused a surprise ph U.
And to me, I think that is the general consensus among people I've spoken to in the intelligence community. And so I guess with final we can say but right now all the evidence points in that direction, yes. Well, I share Peter King's assessment. I think there's a growing body of intelligence and evidence that this was a bomb, still not conclusive, but a growing body of evidence. And I also think that ISIS may have concluded that the best way to defeat airport defenses is not to go through them but to go around them with the help of somebody on the inside.
And if that's the case, I think there probably at least a dozen airports in the region and beyond that are vulnerable to the same kind of approach, which is exactly why we have to harden those defenses. These are very serious implications. ISIS is not gone international before, certainly not to this extent. And what Adam said is percent true. There are a number of airports, regional airports in the -- airports in that region which do not have anywhere near the security that's needed and their flights coming to the U.
And I think U. Well, a lot needs to be done overseas to make sure that these airports, for example, have those precautions in place to examine the employees that have access, that cares those that are responsible for the security itself and unfortunately this is a vulnerability, I think, in every country in which ISIS or Al Qaeda is present. But I want to underscore -- and I think Peter can as well -- that this is a problem here at home. When we test the TSA, they fail. And I think we really need to step up our security here.
Yes, I believe we do. I think we have to both U. This has to be an all-out effort. I don't think the president has done enough as far as having the forces on the ground that are necessary to make the air attacks more effective. I agree that the president's approach basically has a battlefield that is pretty static and that more is going to have to be done; I think, frankly we're going to have to see whether the Turks or the Jordanians are willing to support with ground forces the imposition of some kind of a safer buffer zone.
Otherwise, the trajectory against ISIS is going to take or 15 or 20 years. Coming up, the roundtable weighs in on all the week's politics plus we talk to the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the new biography of George H. Up next, Bernie Sanders is here, what's behind his new take on Hillary Clinton.
I think that when President Obama was running for reelection, I was glad to step up and work very hard for him, while Senator Sanders was trying to find someone to primary him. I am a Democrat. I'm a lifelong Democrat. I'm not a former Independent, I'm not a former Republican. I believe in the party of Franklin Roosevelt, the party of John F. He was bringing up that whole issue of not being a lifelong Democrat, being disloyal to President Obama. Well, let me -- let -- let me respond. I am proud of the fact that that I am a longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress.
That's what the people of Vermont voted for. I made a decision in this presidential election that I will run as a Democrat. I am a Democrat now. And what I am going to do as the Democratic nominee, if we win this thing -- and I think we have a good chance to do that, is to create a new and different type of Democratic Party, to involve millions of people, George, who have given up on the political process, working class people and young people who today say you know what, the economy is rigged, nothing I can do about it.
The campaign finance system is corrupt, big money controls what's going on. What I am trying to do, with some success, is bring out large numbers of young people who are saying, you know what, we're going to recreate America. We're going to transform America and create an economy that works for all of us, not just the billionaire class. We're going to get rid of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and create a vibrant democracy, so that we don't have the lowest voter turnout of almost zany major country on Earth, but one of the largest and strongest voter turnouts.
But what about this issue of trying to gin up primary opposition to President Obama last time around? Look, this is media stuff. What ends up happening -- I do and have done for years a radio show every single Friday, with Thom Hartmann. Somebody asked me years ago, do you think there should be a primary opponent to Barack Obama? And I don't know exactly the words that I -- I'm not sure -- what's wrong with a primary situation?
Well, the answer is I worked very hard to see Barack Obama elected. He came to Vermont to campaign for me in I worked for him in And listen, I think under incredible Republican obstructionism, Obama and Joe Biden have moved this country forward in a way that leaves us a hell of a lot better than we were when Bush left office.
Was in on the floor for eight and a half hours saying no, we should not be giving any more tax breaks to the wealthy? But Barack Obama is a friend of mine. I think he's been a very strong president and has taken this country under an extraordinarily difficult moment in history in a very positive way. One specific difference with the president, how to take on ISIS. You opposed his new decision to put Special Operations boots on the ground in Syria.
Well, here's -- here's what we -- we have. As you know, in , when Bush and, you know, suggested -- and Cheney and all these guys -- that we should go to war in Iraq, I listened very, very carefully to what they said. And, no, I voted against that war. And I think history will record that as the correct vote. Here is the nightmare -- and then every day, I'm on the Senate floor and I'm listening to my Republican colleagues.
They want -- they want kind of boots on the ground.
They want to expand that war. What the president is trying to do is to thread a very difficult needle. He's trying to defeat ISIS. He's trying to get rid of this horrendous dictator, Assad. But at the same time, he doesn't want our troops stuck on the ground. And I agree with that. But I am maybe a little bit more conservative on this than he is. And I worry that once we get sucked into this, once some of our troops get killed and once maybe a plane gets shot down, that we send more in and more in.
And this place is a quagmire in a quagmire in a quagmire and I see a very much perpetual U. But I will say this. ISIS is a barbaric organization. It must be defeated. It must be defeated primarily by the Muslim nations in that region. America can't do it all. And we need an international coalition. Russia should be part of it, U. You've also started to express your differences with -- with Hillary Clinton more and more.
But is it really right for you to tell "The Boston Globe," quote, "I disagree with Hillary Clinton on virtually everything. Well, there's -- that's -- well, the answer is yes and no. Yes, we do agree on a number of issues. And, by the way, on her worst day, Hillary Clinton will be an infinitely better candidate and president than the Republican candidate on his best day.
But having said that, we have very significant differences.
In December , Carson joked on Tonight about an alleged shortage of toilet paper. Nobody else gets anybody and I get crowds. Graciela Tiscareno-Sato, Copyright NBC George Jefferson may have been moving on up, but The Cosby Show gave the nation a more relatable glimpse of the growing middle-class among African Americans, dealing with race, but much more often, dealing with the trials that we all faced. Scott Bakula plays Dr. The film The Aristocrats was dedicated to Carson.
And the key difference is I see a nation in which we have a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality. Almost all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent. I see a political system which is corrupt, where super PACs are able to receive huge amounts of money from millionaires and billionaires.
I think if you look at my history and what I am saying in this campaign, we need a political revolution. We need to stand up to the top 1 percent. We need to transform American politics and the way we do economics. But, by the way, George, if I may, we need to have a media more interested in the issues facing working class people and the middle class rather than political gossip.
Of course I do. But I think on issues, for example, like Wall Street, you know, I believe that these guys who drove our economy into the ground, destroyed so many lives, I think at the end of the day, what we have to do is re reestablish Glass-Steagall. We have to break up these huge financial institutions. That is not Hillary Clinton's position at all.
You know, I was there on the TPP from way back. That was -- Hillary Clinton took a little while to get there. Senator Sanders, thanks very much for joining us this morning. Up next, former President George H. Bush blasting his son's advisers in a new biography. Find out why when we talk to the Pulitzer Prize winner author, Jon Meacham. Back now with that new biography of President George H.
Bush, making big headlines this week. Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham was granted unprecedented access to Bush for his book, "Destiny in Power," and in those unvarnished conversations, the former president's first public critique of George W. States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil. He thought that the swaggering image of the Bush 43 administration was a diplomatic problem.
He held Cheney and Rumsfeld to some degree responsible for it. But gentlemanly and honestly, intellectually honestly, he did tell me ultimately it's the president's fault.
Bush told Meacham that Cheney is hardline, iron-assed, a man who built his own empire. I think it's fair to say that Dick Cheney saw him as much more as an operational officer of the government. And when I took Cheney those remarks, Cheney said, we just have two very different visions of the vice presidency and I was doing what 43 wanted me to do. Rumsfeld has now responded. He says, "Bush 41 is getting up in years and misjudges Bush All I'll say that Secretary Rumsfeld on that is the comments were made beginning in So seven years ago. It was not a passing comment.
I took a transcript of all those remarks to President Bush And I said I can't these off the record but if you would like to say…. I said this in the heat of the moment, after he thought this, I'll note that. I think because the son's presidency was ending. I think that he does believe in history. I think that he understood that there was fairly and unfairly a sense that the 43 administration was swaggering too much.
There was too much swagger and not enough diplomatic substance. Bush is most revealing about his own years in the Oval Office. Aggression is defeated; the war is over. He says, in his diary, that there is no Battleship Missouri moment. He was as frustrated about that as a lot of other Americans were.
But he knew that he had done the right thing. I don't think clinically depressed. All through the book, Bush is a proud father. On W's leadership in the Iraq War. He said the toppling of Saddam was a proud moment in American history. And on his own legacy, Bush is strikingly modest. He leaves the White House and his judgment to you, in retrospect, is that he's an asterisk in history?
I feel like an asterisk. And on other occasions, he said, I feel lost between the great hero, the trumpets of Reagan and the trials and tribulations of my son. I think he looks better and better, a president of great consequence. We'll get their take on the targeting of Ben Carson. Donald Trump's standup and what to watch for in this week's debate -- after this from our ABC stations.
He's very popular still. Yes, I think you've got to have that kind of confidence if you are in this arena, trying to be president. So if I were going to run against him, would I win? And let's begin with Ben Carson. Saw him come on this morning, again taking on the press about all these questions about his past. It is going to help him. We've learned in this Republican race that media coverage is extremely important and a negative media coverage of a certain type is like gold for these candidates.
And this coverage has been so disproportionate, he should have been more precise; some of the things he said in his book. But to most Republicans, it's going to feel like a campaign character assassination. The best moment for Ted Cruz in the last debate was when the biased media was unfair. And Carson has just been given that opportunity.
He can now run against Ben Carson deniers, who say he's not the man he is. And this helps him because we know he's a man of service; he's a humble guy, a peaceful guy, soft-spoken. He's now had that opportunity to demonstrate strength. He stood up there and said, no, I'm going to call you on No -- not one of us would take, I think, objection to his childhood and his so-called journey. But the central case of his campaign is not his ideas, not his policy, it's his bile, his character. And so these questions undermine some of the central points that he's been making about himself. And I think they're going to continue to see this.
I think you heard Ben Carson say to you earlier in this show, in this issue of what happened with him in college, at Yale, whether he was photographed as the most honest student. He said, we found it, I don't know why they couldn't. I think that there will be pressure on him to release that and put that out.
But I do agree that negative media attention has been a huge boon to Republican candidates and it's really sort of -- Trump has shown us that you can say things that are demonstrably not true and as long as you say them with authority, it doesn't seem to matter. But there's -- there's an aspect of this that I think people are -- are missing. Usually when a politician is accused of exaggerating, it's to glorify him or herself, him, you know, to say I was more courageous than -- than I was.
This is Ben Carson, the story about his temper, was about glorifying God and telling a story about how God transformed his life. And you'd better believe that every single Evangelical voter in Iowa understands this controversy in those terms.
And -- and Alex Castellanos. We also saw Marco Rubio, as he started to rise coming out of the last debate, getting more questions, as well as some criticism from Donald Trump over his credit card charges. As I look at that, I wonder if Jeb Bush is going to repeat the attack his campaign had last time around. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot there. There doesn't seem to be a lot there.
And right now, taking out Marco Rubio doesn't particularly help Jeb Bush. It's still a very crowded field and Jeb is not necessarily next in line. That's the first order or task for him, because that's another candidate who is really poaching moderate voters that Jeb needs. Trump, he didn't win any of the exchanges with Trump. He was embarrassed when he went after Rubio in the last debate. His campaign has bragged about how much oppo it has on Rubio, including the credit cards, and there appears to be nothing there.
Yes, Scott Walker left the race and he -- and Jeb Bush had a lane, you know, to -- to sort of drive ahead and he finds himself now in a collision with Marco Rubio, but I think Jeb Bush's problem is that Jeb Bush still cannot articulate why he's running for president. He keeps turning the camera back onto him, I know I have to do better, I know I have to perform, I'm going to be like John McCain and go out there and grind it out.
John McCain, in '07 and '08, didn't talk about how he was going to be a lot better. He just went out and performed better. And he had a real political narrative experience and learned from it. And Jeb Bush, so far, has not demonstrated that he has. He's demonstrated that he knows people are saying he has to do better. But we need to see in the debate this week a much better performance, or there's going to be a real problem. Forceful, winning some exchanges with people. And he's talked about performance kind of slidingly the last few weeks. Performance is enormously important.
We do not elect presidents now who aren't exceptional performers. Maybe Calvin Coolidge could have gotten away from it -- away with it, but not in the modern media age.