Larry Elder Speaks at Combat Veterans For Congress

This is Larry Elder the best-selling author and radio talk-show host’s speech to the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC’s gala event in San Diego, CA on September 6th, 2014.

Elder’s latest book is “Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives…Eight Hours“. Here is a synopsis of the book:

A man’s relationship with his father — every boy, every man lucky enough to have a father in his life has to figure that out.

My own father?

I thought I knew him — even though he seldom talked about himself. And what I knew I hated — really, really hated. Cold, ill-tempered, thin-skinned, my father always seemed on the brink of erupting. Scared to death of him, I kept telling myself to find the courage to “stand up to him.” When I was fifteen, I did. We did not speak to each other for ten years.

And then we did — for eight hours.

Dear Father, Dear Son takes a journey of American history through the eyes of a father — from his dirt-poor Jim Crow Southern childhood, to the segregated Marine Corp. of World War II, to a janitor turned California businessman. Hard memories.

One man discovered a son he never really knew. And the son found a man, a friend, a father who had really been there all along.