My Mommy Wears Combat Boots
Sharon G. McBride is an U.S. Army veteran of 13 years, and has completed three deployments since 2003. As a photojournalist, the author documented events of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Hurricane Katrina.As the single parent of a three-year-old toddler, she wrote My Mommy Wears Combat Boots based on her personal experience in addressing her child's negative feelings associated with her deployments. The author is out of the service now, but she hopes that My Mommy Wears Combat Boots will help other military children cope with their separation from their mothers as the result of this war; because there are a lot of mommies who wear combat boots.