Episode 64: Aurea Franklin, Author of Silent Freedom

Bulletproof Veteran Podcast

This week we welcome Aurea Franklin, author of Silent Freedom. Aurea retired from the 101st Airborne Division, Air Assault (AASLT), and deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom for four years: two tours with the 101st and two years as a civilian contractor. Silent Freedom is a captivating memoir about Aurea’s time spent with the 101st Airborne Division Air Assault in Iraq. It is a story about courage, love, loss, and war. Silent Freedom will take you to the darkest corners of the war zone in Iraq while demonstrating how faith and hope can help make a difference. We examine the unique experience of women in a combat zone, and also the challenges women face as they re-integrate into the civilian world. She discusses how her faith guided her through multiple deployments, divorce, and separation from her son. So get ready to end the year with a bang, and enjoy this week’s episode.
To learn more about Aurea Franklin and to purchase Silent Freedom go to https://www.silentfreedom101st.com.
We finish out the Season of Giving with this week’s highlighted veteran non-profit, the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation. The GWOT Memorial Foundation leads the effort to plan, fund, design, and build the National Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Just this week President Biden signed the authorization for a GWOT Memorial on the National Mall, a major victory for the foundation, but the work is just beginning. Now is the time to donate and help make the dream of a proper GWOT Memorial a reality. Go to https://www.gwotmemorialfoundation.org to donate now!
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