Book helps children cope with deployments

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Second Lt. Korey R. Outerbridge reads his book, "Good Morning, Honey. Goodbye, Daddy. Goodnight, Sweetheart" to children at ABC Learning Center in Petersburg, Va. Outerbridge got the idea for the book while on a deployment to Iraq.


Book helps children cope with deployments
By Peter Bacque - Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch via The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jan 6, 2009 21:25:41 EST

PETERSBURG, Va. — Korey Outerbridge was in Iraq when the idea came to him: He needed to write a children’s book.

“We had phone tents when we deployed, for soldiers to call back to the states,” Outerbridge said.

Crossword-puzzle and race-car magazines lay scattered about the phone tents. Soldiers would thumb through them while they waited to contact to their families, the 29-year-old Newport News native recalled.

“I got the idea: Why not put something in that they could share with their youngsters back home?” he said.

Outerbridge, now an Army lieutenant living in Prince George County, has written that book: “Good Morning, Honey. Goodbye, Daddy. Goodnight, Sweetheart.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/01/ap_soldier_book_010609/%2e