CGR FRIDAY 111023 Detri McGhee Graciela Tiscareno-Sato

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All right. I've got a great program lined up for you today. Dr. Carol Lieberman will be with me at the bottom of our number two, a tragic story.

FL Bubba Copeland, you may never have heard of him, but you have heard of this type of story. And we're going to dive into that and hopefully learn some things from it. Don Jans will be with me. Where do we turn? You know, if last night's debate taught us anything, and I couldn't even stomach to honestly, but at any rate, if it taught us anything, it taught us that we're in in, in really deep trouble all the way around. Because the choices are, are slim to none. But there you go.

Here's the choice. And I wrote this, actually, I put this out on my on my page this morning. And, and, and it's true. And, and it goes like this. We get the page to look.

Love technology when it works. Here we go. One thing I've learned over the years wounded people are wounded, wounded people cause wounds and wounded people get their wounds opened up by other wounded people. Most people have wounds, and are therefore wounded people.

So love like you would like to be loved. And know that Jesus Christ by his stripes, heals wounds. Our only hope as a nation, our only hope is to return to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to come back to that foundation. That's it. And aside from that, but you know what that is the greatest hope, greatest.

And what we have got to start doing is is putting our trust and faith in that. Bottom of this hour also will be honoring female aviators and Veterans Day but joining me now. And I'm I'm really pleased to have the opportunity to have her on the program with me. She was an eyewitness to the events that took place on October 7 in Israel. As she was in Jerusalem. She'll tell us in just a minute why she was there.

And what she experienced I want to welcome. It's Dietri. Am I am I saying that correctly?

Did I? Not with an E with an I. Dietra. Dietra. Okay. All right.

There you go. Very good. I want to welcome Dietra McGee to the program. Dietra, welcome. Good to have you. Thank you. Wonderful to be here with you. Well, first of all, let's begin. Tell me a little bit about what it was that had brought you to Jerusalem and and and your journey to to to go on on that particular trip.

Back in 2015, my sister and I were looking for a way to celebrate her 60th birthday in a special way. And we started checking out various ways and unknown to her I had been checking out ways of places that had Jewish connections that I could go and perhaps minister there and, or just enjoy getting to know the Jewish culture, the Jewish people better. It led me to an organization in Jerusalem, that is called International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, ICEJ.

And they were formed in 1950. Because there was no embassy in Jerusalem. So a group of businessmen from around the world formed this embassy there in Jerusalem itself to be a connection between the Christians and the Jews of the area. So we were able to go over there and serve as they prepared for the Feast of Tabernacles celebration. And Nikki and I were put on the same street team because we had some sewing background and we made the costumes for the praise team and the ushers and things like that. So we spent a couple of weeks beforehand doing that. And then were there as ushers for the the events itself, a week long celebration that they have each year.

And so I was back that year by myself this time on the trip, my sister wasn't able to go. And my my job at that point was to work with resources to put out the books that they have for sale and the scarves and all the fun things like that and the toys. And so I had been there doing that. And I was scheduled to go home, October 6, at almost a midnight flight. But after I scheduled that, they put out a bulletin, they were going to have a barbecue. Thank you for the volunteers on October the seventh. So I paid some extra money and changed my ticket for a day later at around midnight, which happened to be October the seventh. So that's why I was actually there at that time. And of course, we did not get to have our barbecue. Our day changed dramatically.

No, of course not. So tell me, it was about, now were you, because it was about 6.30 in the morning is when they started the shooting at the music festival and so on. But from what David shared with us in Tel Aviv, there were rockets coming in, which was normal. People don't realize, but Israel is always under that.

David and I have talked about that for months. Remember that I went back yesterday. I think I might have shared that with you, but you know, 29 weeks before this event happened, we shared that Israel was already at war. It just hadn't materialized into what it did on the seventh of October. All that being said, because communications were knocked out, they didn't know how far in the terrorists had come.

At what point were you awakened and made aware that Israel was under attack? It was actually much later in the day before we got any word of that. We didn't have a habit of turning on our television in the morning. We weren't there to watch TV, so we had no idea anything like this was going to go on. I was actually packing to head home, so I would be ready to leave as soon as we got back from the luncheon.

I believe it was about somewhere around 8.30 and we heard the alarms go off. Of course, we knew that when you go to Israel, you know that when that sounds, you go to the bomb shelter and you know where the bomb shelter is if you're there any time at all. First thing I understand that they show you is they say, okay, here's the kitchen, now here's the bomb shelter. Maybe even it's the bomb shelter and then the kitchen, but it's somewhere in that general vicinity as I understand it.

That is so true. In our instance, they were right across the hall from each other. Everybody knew where to go. There was no panic. Part of what amazed me about the whole thing is that no one, even the visitors, it might have been their first time there, but there was no panic, screaming you see on the TV shows and the movies. It was just a calm, okay, now we go to the bomb shelter.

It's a surreal feeling. Now, one of the things that came out because of the fact that the bomb shelters are designed to protect from bombs, obviously not from terrorists breaking into your front door or walking into the house and then going room by room. The bomb shelters, as I understand it, are not set up with locks and so on like we might assume here in America. I mean, every door in your house, for the most part, you put a lock on it. We just do that. I don't know. It's always been that way.

I'm 62 years old. That's how you do it. But that's not how it is over there relative to these bomb shelters in particular. Am I correct?

You're exactly right. The door to them, of course, is very heavy. Right.

Okay. But I didn't observe any locks inside or out. It's like going to the basement.

It's a concrete room with chairs and a table or two sometimes. It's just a fact of life over there. Of course, at this time, we had no idea the slaughter was going on. We had no idea that the music festival had been that scene that it was. We only knew the sirens were going off there in Jerusalem.

So as we went down to the shelter and as we, I think we'd been there, I don't want to guess how long, but less than a minute, a few seconds. And we could hear bombs going off, but we could tell that they were exploding overhead because it sounded more like one of those hand cannons, what do you call those things, that you shoot off at the 4th of July. Right.

Like an M80 or something like that. It was just like a... Yeah. So it was being intercepted.

We heard several of those. And the way it works, you go into the bomb shelter when the alarm sounds, and after it goes off, you wait five minutes. And if it's off still, then you go back to packing your suitcase. Whatever you were doing. Right. Right. Just back to life.

Back to life. And it's very interesting. I found that watching the people around me was very interesting. Most of the people that were in, well, all of the people actually that were in our bomb shelter area were Christians. About the 3rd or 4th time that we were sent to the bomb shelter, that area was filled by the time I got there. And they ushered us to an adjoining room and it was filled with the Jewish people, which we didn't even know they were there at the time. But this was Shabbat. So there were families that spend that whole time in the hostel. We were staying in the Rabin hostel facility.

And that's their lifestyle is to come there over the weekend and so mom doesn't have to cook or anything. So there were children. And this particular area was petitioned off with a little lattice type thing. And the women were on one side with the children and the men were on the other side and they had their prayer shawls on.

And they were praying, they were reading from the Torah and praying. So that was very interesting. I felt like I was kind of intruding. They didn't make me feel that way. It wasn't that they made me feel, I just felt like I knew I was in their territory.

And yes, it was humbling to watch them. The children were very quiet. I didn't see terror on anybody's face, just concern.

And of course, not smiling and chitchatting, very somber. But the lack of apparent fear was there. And it was, I was never afraid during this time, which was kind of strange, because we knew there were bombs that were being aimed at us. But there was this beautiful peace that was there. And I thought later, of course, it was easy for me to have peace.

This is not my lifestyle. When I go back home, I have a basement, but I don't have to run to it in a second notice. So I think I've learned almost as much about what happened since I got home, as I learned when I was actually there, just thinking about all of it. At what point did you and those around you become aware that this was more than just, you know, the routine, if you will, and I know that sounds, I don't know, like I'm not giving it the significance, but for the people in Israel, and I think people need to understand that this is normal. The bomb shelter visits, the bombs overhead, all of this, this has been going on, because they have said, to the sea, that is their mantra. And you can't have peace with to the sea, period.

You can't, you can't give them, they gave them space and look what they did. But at what point did the news of the horrific events that had happened and that Israel was at war? When did that revelation hit? It was actually at least a couple of hours before we really begin to understand and I don't think we got the full understanding of it while I was there. I don't think we understood the gross atrocities, the depth of the evil that was being battered on Israel during this time. Only after we got home and saw the news clips and things because we stayed very busy bouncing back and forth from the bomb shelter and talking about what was going on in our in the hostel. There are a great number of soldiers who go through training and they are housed there. And so we were accustomed on many of our meals to seeing the soldiers in the hall with us in a little bit different section.

But so we would see all these young, young soldiers, they had to be the 18 year olds, the new soldiers, men and women. And of course, they were pretty jovial during the time. But then about I think perhaps it was around 10, 11 o'clock, we noticed the soldiers back, which usually we didn't see them during the day. We saw them at breakfast and then at dinner. But they were back and they were in the waiting area, the lobby area, which was pretty large, and had their their bags packed, very somber at that point, very serious, very quiet area. And so we knew that something far bigger than just a few stray bombs had made their way over. And we started hearing things here and there from that point. So at that point, there was a change in the demeanor of the soldiers.

And and how did that impact the other individuals that you're with? Did you see any more of the of the Jewish people that you had had encountered in one of your trips to the bomb shelter for at that point? No, pretty much. I think the Jews had gone home, we there might be an occasional one or two there. But most mostly the lobby was full of the soldiers and then the Christian groups that had been housed there.

Okay, they were. There was a respectful reverence more than fear. But there was also this, it's very hard to describe, I don't know that we have words that describe some of the things that war brings about. I think maybe we need to invent something that might explain it better. That might speak to that. Well, it's Yeah, I, you know, I can only imagine, you know, you're you're, especially for the Jewish people and and and the people, you know, living there in Israel. You know, I mean, you're talking about a, an area that's, you know, 40 by 20, 40 miles by 20 miles. And, and, you know, the closing in in a 12 of a 20 mile strip can happen quite rapidly. And, and, and the intensity of the bombing, I think was, you know, there was, I mean, you're talking about 1000s of missiles that were that were fired in whereas normally they might have 50 to 100.

And and that had to be, you know, significantly different. How many times have you been to Israel now? This was my fifth time. I went on to the first time I went with my brother is his church just on what you would call a standard tourist trip.

Okay. The then Nikki and I went on our first time with ICA and worked that time we didn't get to see very much I wish that she had been able to see more of the land since I had seen Masada and you know, great many of those places. But in the third time, I went back with Nikki and we went on a tour but it was much different than your normal tour. The gentleman that that was hosting us and whether we're there were two but the main one was a friend of ours who was an archaeologist there in Israel. And his name was john Milanson. He has since passed away this last January. And a big loss that he had served there in Israel.

He was from Texas, actually, you know, where Mount Enterprise is by any chance of near not, not too far from the Arkansas border. But he had, he took us on places that your normal tour doesn't get to go on. So I would I would encourage your readers if you your listeners, I'm sorry, if you get a chance, go on an unusual tour. He took us to the Israeli antiquities authority, we got to see tour that and see so many of the old, old, old, old things that they've collected from there in the history comes alive. Of course, we went to Yad Vashem.

And we just we got to go some parts of the land that they don't normally take tour buses because there's not space for a lot of tour buses. I think it's gonna be a while detour before anybody's gonna be over there taking any tours. No, I hope not.

I have a theory and I'll wait and see if it comes to pass. But I think once this war is over, that it will settle down fairly quickly for a time and it will probably be the safest time to visit Israel when this is completely over. Because everybody that wants to destroy them will be building their stockpiles up again. But usually there's, you know, there's big war, then there's peace. Well, their definition of peace, which is you have a few more seconds to get to the bomb shelter.

Yeah. Well, I think their goal this time is not to leave any of those people standing. They're they're not going to it's an admiral go. They're not going to leave that well, they're not going to stop till Hamas is done. And they're not going to stop till Hezbollah is done.

And and and at this point, since Yemen has decided to jump in and the hoodies, they're not going to stop till the till the hoodies are done. It would be nice to have a lot of that evil read for a while. For a time, it sure would. Yeah, I would agree.

I would agree. I was studying in Second Kings. I think it was chapter 13. But in Second Kings, where Elijah, Elijah, was told the king, you know, to talking about going to battle. And the basic thing I got from it, I won't go through the whole thing. But the basic thing was that Elijah's team became that he was ministering to stop too soon. He told him strike the ground with the arrows.

Right. And he stopped too soon. He didn't use the whole quiver of arrows. And then Elijah told him, if you had used the whole quiver, this enemy would have been destroyed and done away with.

Yeah, because you didn't do all you could nail in preparation. Yeah, you're gonna have a problem. Well, look at look at, you know, prim prim is is came into the the whole entire Esther story happened because of the disobedience of Saul, when it came to, you know, destroying the Amalekites. You know, I mean, there, there is a point at which God, you know, uses his people to to, to rid the earth of certain evil. And and ultimately, what we need to help people to understand is when Jesus Christ comes back, it's not going to be on a on a, you know, one of those horses with a horn and and spreading candy canes and flowers. He's going to come back with fire in his eyes and a sword and he is going to destroy all evil. And if you are a part of that evil, you're going to be destroyed. Period. Exactly. No, it's so important for us to for me as a person because as a as a mom, as a female, I lean very heavily on the mercy side.

And not the battles, the wars. And so I'd like to think that everyone's going to be saved, but they won't be because it's because of their choice. It's not that God says no, you can't be. It's a choice thing.

It is absolutely a choice. Dietra, thanks for being with me today. I greatly appreciate it.

I've got to get my next guest on. Thank you for taking the time to be with us. I'm glad you're home. I'm glad you're safe.

And we will continue to watch what's what's taking place. Thank you. Great pleasure to be here with you.

All right, God bless you. We're going to take our break. We'll be back with more Children Generation Radio. We're going to honor female aviators coming up here on Children Generation Radio right after this brief break. Hi, this is Pastor Greg and you're listening to Children Generation Radio. Get more at ChildrenGenerationRadio.com.

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Nope. And welcome back to Children's Generation Radio where no topic is off limits and everything filtered through biblical glasses. And of course, Monday is Veterans Day. And as a veteran, we honor, as a disabled veteran, we honor all veterans and are grateful for their service. And we have a lot of veterans that are in need of our love and our support, especially because we've had 20 years of wars. My next guest is here to help us identify and honor a particular group of veterans that oft times are overlooked. And I want to welcome to the program, Graciela Tescarino Sato, also known as Captain Mama. And I thank you for being with me today. It's truly a pleasure to have you on the program to talk about female aviators. Well, Pastor Greg, thank you so much for your interest in celebrating this Veterans Day weekend together. I really appreciate that, especially with the fellow vet.

It's always nice. You know, you were talking to me a little bit in the green room about, you know, the generation that's coming up. And man, I talk, we talk a lot about the indoctrination and the things that they're being told and all of the stuff that's going on in our schools, which is detrimental to our families and all those things. But one of the things that's happening is they're not being taught to have a sense of pride and a good pride. You know, I ask people all the time, I say, well, who was the first nationalist?

You might think about that. But who's the first nationalist? Yeah, I love it. First nationalist was God. God was the first nationalist. And he said to Abram, I'm going to make nations out of your seed.

Go ahead. Well, and, you know, to your point about the young people, you know, that might be true, but it's also there's other awesome things happening. I'll just tell you, on Tuesday, I was the keynote speaker at a middle school here in Northern California, where is an eighth grade assembly, the orchestra, the band, the choir, everybody was involved to celebrate Veterans Day. And it's a tradition they've had for a long, long time, the Daughters of the American Revolution were there. BFW was there, the American Legion, the mayor spoke, he's a veteran. So this, there's many communities where they do these.

It's not a small assembly, it was a district wide assembly to celebrate service. Now, just I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm from Northern California. I'm, I'm and I love hearing this because when I was a kid growing up, we were all about red, white and blue. When I grew up in the Bay in the Bay Area, I grew up in San Leandro. Yeah, I'm right by there.

I'm like in the Hayward-Kester Valley area. That's hilarious. We're like neighbors.

Yeah, yeah. But we still are. That's what I'm trying to tell you. It's it's not, not everything that we hear is true.

And I'm telling you firsthand, I'm in a lot of schools. That's all about the red, white and blue. I mean, it's, you know, it's Veterans Day, so that's why.

But it was really beautiful. It's a unifying event because there was seriously World War II veteran there. He made it.

He was like 98. He made it to the event. And then all the way up to, you know, daughters of Vietnamese immigrants who are currently serving and it was, everybody was there.

It was beautiful. So it is still happening. They're still getting the good message. And again, service before self was the message.

And I had them raise their hands, you know, how many of you are Scouts and how many of you are doing community service. So all that is still very much alive and well in places where people think it is not. And I'd sought for myself just on Tuesday this week. So another proof point. No, no, no. Hey, I you know what, hearing those stories, we need to hear them because it's encouraging, right? It's encouraging to know that, you know, that interview. Yeah, yeah. Well, and veterans on the wall.

So they interviewed 300 veterans and they put their pictures and their stories and a quote, all over the wall. So it was a really big celebration. You would have loved it. I know I would have loved it. I know I would have loved it. No doubt about it. No doubt about it.

No, that that is, that is really, really joyous to hear. Well, you know, Californians, I mean, we I left California about 12 years ago. But we lived in Modesto after that I grew up in the Bay Area, but we lived in Modesto for 18 years. And, and we, you know, I mean, I was a part of, you know, pushing, you know, traditional family values and those kinds of things. And we fought that and the stand and the bulk of the citizens of California, up until that point, for sure, were voting for traditional values. It's just the radical judiciary was overturning our votes.

And the population has changed significantly in the last 40 years. So that's the other part. Yeah, by the way, I didn't grow up here. So you have something different than me. I grew up in Colorado.

Okay. And I actually came here on an Air Force ROTC scholarship, my short intro that I can use, please, I'm the daughter of immigrants. So it's very short, the daughter of Mexican immigrants who became an Air Force officer and military aviator.

That's my one liner. I grew up in Colorado, my mom and dad are from Ciudad Juarez and my dad at Chihuahua. And I was the oldest of five kids. So I was trying to figure out how to go to college. And I asked my counselor, how can I go to college, it's the magic question that I teach everywhere I go, you don't know how to do something, parents haven't been to college, as the magic question.

And then I attracted the answer. And my counselor's husband was an Air Force major. So Major Wendell Burgess guided me and mentored me to apply for the Air Force ROTC scholarship to go to college for your scholarship. And my counselor mentored me to do the actual application process. So that's how I got to California from a little town in Colorado called Greeley.

And I went 1000 miles away to UC Berkeley, my number one school for architecture and aerospace studies. That's interesting. So if you were in Greeley, then Jesse Ramirez was your bus driver when you were in school. Oh my god, I know that name. Yeah, that's that's my wife's. That's my well, that's my wife's uncle. I totally know that name.

It's getting smaller by the moment. Yeah, my wife is Mexican American. And my in-laws actually were part of going and harvesting all across the country. They're from Texas, but up to Colorado and all through the, you know, the produce belt. So yeah, yeah, my kids are then Latinx is the new term. But my eldest daughter actually has moved down to Mexico. Wow.

Well, and that's it. You know, I always I always say this, you know, they the census has counted 60 million Hispanics, you know, the government word, we're ethnically Latinos and Latinas, but Latinx is, you know, just to be shorter and more inclusive. So Hispanic as a as a word as a, you know, political category to count the people with from countries of origin doesn't mean we're born there. But you know, our lineage goes back there, right? Right.

Count to 60 million. But you know, I know plenty of people like a colonel in the Air Force named Danielle Hoffman. Do you think she's Latina? She is.

How about Cheryl Shafer? Also Latina. So we have a lot of names that you know, mom was Latina, but then she uses the dad's name.

So I think there's so many more. And I always say that you will have Latino grandchildren. Well, we sure. And it's just we've and we were always here.

And you know what, and and that's all apart. I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, well, I'm Italian on my mom's side. Um, you know, I'm German on my dad's side. And and and I'm, and I'm Italian and English. So I'm Italian, English and German. I'm like World War Three.

It's or World War Two. It's kind of tell me your Italian your Italian name to Melly to Melly. What is he to Melly to Melly?

Oh, see, so that's it. You cannot tell by a person's name. Okay, I am very obvious with my name. I look see, like this guy in your Sato, like, I want you to know, yeah, that I'm, you know, and then I married a Japanese man. So I'm hyphenated.

This is very California. And I want you to know that. Otherwise, I would be gray Sato. And I say I'm not gray Sato. That's a lady from Korea.

Right? Okay. It's not me. So I'm gonna say that this guy in your Sato and I do that very intentionally because again, names names don't tell you everything and especially in the service if we're gonna talk about Latina serving. I just gave you the example of Cheryl Schaefer, whose mom served in the army. She served in the army. And when I met her, I never knew she was at the end.

And then she told me, Oh, but my last name was actually, you know, like only that. I'm like, Oh, so I'm just saying, there's we have such a beautiful, long, rich history of serving that the NAS do. But like you said in your intro, Pastor Greg, it is not it is not what you see on Top Gun Maverick. You know, I like to say I represent the military aviators that don't look like Tom Cruise, because there's so many of us. And you know, I have a friend in North Carolina, Olivia Chavez, she served in the Marines for eight years, went to college, and they became a shouldn't a helicopter pilot in the army. Okay, so we were everywhere we serve so many places.

And I just want that visibility, which is why I adopted the Captain Mama idea. My son inspired me to write and we'll talk about that in a few minutes. And it's, it's all about the American heritage, because what it shows is, is that America is a land of opportunity. America is a land that gives people who are willing to put in the work, who are willing to dedicate themselves the opportunity to be able to have that that success. And it doesn't matter, red, brown, yellow, black or white, everyone can be successful, because because that's the system that we've created, which I think is so absolutely wonderful. And we should celebrate each other's successes, right?

You know, and, you know, yes, thank you for saying it that way, because that's exactly it. But the other thing is that unless you ask unless you ask that magic question, okay, so how can I get the scholarship? Can I go to college? Sure.

Can I fly? I put the responsibility on the kids and on the teenagers when I go to schools. If I had not been asking the question of how can I go to college?

And how can I get a scholarship? No one's going to approach me in the hallway and say, Hi, would you like some scholarship information? Can I give you all the answers? Now, the responsibility is on you to ask the questions because the opportunities exist. And you need to be asking the questions to go get the answers. You can't just sit back and go, Well, I've heard it's possible that I don't know how to do it.

Right. And so mentorship, you know, having that adult that cares that opens up their heart to you, like my counselors, my counselor invited me to her house for dinner. And that's where I met her husband. So she, she had a huge heart and she knew she saw the potential in me. She saw the question. She saw the fire. How can I go to college? I'm the oldest of five kids born in Mexican immigrants.

I don't know how to do this. Right. You know what?

My husband, he'll tell you. Yeah, we'll show you the clothing change very nicely that so that I can, I can make this point. You know, when I was at the school this week in Los Gatos, they did these beautiful interviews of the veterans and they posted them on the wall. And I know Los Gatos. Yeah.

So, you know, Los Gatos unified. Okay. Well, that's where I was.

I was at Fisher middle school. Awesome. They have this beautiful vision of interviewing veterans and then they put their photos, their bio, their service, a picture, and then one of the quotes from the interview. And as I counted them, like for every 50 interviews of men, there was one woman and a teacher friend had actually tipped me off to the interview part.

So I was looking at everything as well. We really need to show up. We really need to show the women. So this is why I changed my clothes just now. Cause I made the point there that, you know, when you interview veterans, first of all, look for women at number two, cause we're out here.

And number two, we are multifaceted people. Look at you, you served during the cold war and you did Russian and you were telling me about that. And now you have your own show.

You're a media creator. Every veteran I know is doing something else career wise because we had to get out. Right. And so I tell the kids, we literally take off the uniform, which is why I dramatically did this someone else.

Right. We become a civilian. We dress up, we go to tech, we go to work, we, we go to school. And so I became captain mama after writing the children's books. And I'm sure you're going to ask. Well, and I would, and that's a great segue into that. So tell, tell us about the books that you have written.

We got about 10 minutes left to do that. Tell us about the books that you've written to and, and, and what the focus is of, of, of the books that you've put together. So I start with giving props to my son who saw me in my flight. This is my flight suit hanging behind me, by the way, the other uniform I no longer wear. And I take these to air shows now and kids put them on.

We'll talk about that. But my son saw me wearing this before Veterans Day. And we basically had a conversation that led to the writing of good night, captain mama buenas noches capitan mama. And this is a bedtime story with a child sees mama in a flight suit, is fascinated by the patches, pulls them off.

And she's able to, you know, answer his questions and talk about her service through the colorful patches. And it was literally that night when he left and he said, I love you, captain mama, that I started writing. And I started asking do women even write books for kids about their service?

And I found exactly zero. I'm the first to do it. Wow. We also include activity in the back. So the kids again, what we talked about before now learning, oh, I'm a part of something, let me do a patch for my school, for my scout group, for my church group, for my team, whatever. And then they create these patches at schools and air shows. And it's a way for kids to, you know, become part of it.

You know, I am part of a group and I can design something to reflect it. So that was he goes, the little boy goes to sleep wondering, what if my mom will take me to the jet? Two years later, we put out the second in the trilogy, which is less oppressive. They kept me them in my captain mama's surprise. Now we're at the case, the 135, their aerial refueling tanker that I served on. And it's a field trip because it's a gas station. And like, what is that?

Nobody knows. So kids and adults are fascinated. And I'll show you my favorite illustration by Linda lens, whose father served in the Air Force to my illustrator.

So this is my tanker, Casey 135. And then it's a beautiful illustration, we make bookmarks out of this. But it continues the story of like, the airplane and the fuel tanks and the fuel panel and all the technical words. And Pastor Greg, it's fully in English, fully in Spanish, glossary of technical words about the airplane, and a glass value in Espanola about the words of the part. So you can say landing gear, and learn to say trend that there is a key.

So really celebrating mostly lingual ism. And the fact that you know, you can speak Spanish and learn to fire planes. And then we took it in the air.

We launched this in Houston at the air show last October brings over Houston, the spring on the cook up with them. I'm taking flight and I used to little Marco. It's all in the boy's voice.

It's the child's voice. He's so excited to go fly with his mom. And that's what we do. We fly together and the kids see refueling of stealth fighters, f117s and f22s. And again, fully English, fully Spanish. And then my son designed the world's first bilingual origami, including the children's book, English, Spanish, full drone f22 fighter jet. Very cool. This is the first series that shows that Latinas are aviators and veterans, that mothers are aviators and veterans. And yeah, that women are serving. So it's very intentional, coming from my heart from my service, to really put imagery out there. That celebrates that fact that we are serving.

We've always been serving way back since, you know, Civil War, right in, in, in one form or another. Yeah, in one form or another. Certainly, there's, you know, patches. Yeah, that match the books, because it all started with patches.

And as a scout as a scout mom, who doesn't love patches. So yeah, well, which which teach you to the work and teach you to earn and and and, you know, and the requirements that are necessary. So there's a, there's an individual aspect of of effort, that brings about a, a net result, and and you have to apply yourself in order to do it. And then there's the creativity as well, that's associated with that. So you've got an overarching patch, but then your path to that patch might be different because of the particular task that you choose to pursue in order to obtain that particular patch.

Exactly. And even, you know, on the the name badge here, I'll go ahead and pull it off. People are always asking me at air shows, how do I get a flight suit?

How much does it cost? So I go graduate high school, go to college, or the Academy gets selected to fly and then actually graduate. And that's how you get free flight suits.

There you go. Then I say and then when you show up, you just have your name, you just have that right when you're training, you just have your name. And should you be in the 75% of the class that graduates, then you get your wings. And then to your point about earning, you don't get the star until you've been in the air for 1,500 hours. So the star comes from, you know, a certain level of amount of flying that you're doing. And then of course, all the medals and things come from specific campaigns and all of that.

So you're right, it's all about the earning. It's a beautiful way to tell that story through simple, colorful insignia that catches the child's eye. In case you're wondering what this is, you know, I did the dramatic clothing change. Some of us get the veteran hat. So I do wear the veteran hat at air shows. But I'm putting this on because, you know, I am so Latina and I'm so bilingual, the air show organizers now are asking me to announce shows in Spanish. So I made up a new word called a vionadora, which means narrator of airplanes, like the lady that talks about airplanes. And I did the air show in Hillsborough, Oregon in May.

And because you're in DC, I want you to know Andrews Air Force Base is having an air show next spring. And I would love your listeners to pick up the phone and call the public affairs office and say, hey, can you guys make sure you invite Captain Mama and maybe have Spanish language narration? And then I can be up on the platform, Facebook Live, partner with the local radio station in Spanish language.

And then all of the action that you see in the sky can be brought, you can go bilingual with your air show. It's time. Well, I got to do it. Yeah. Certainly it is it is encouraging, you know, to to bring other people in and get them engaged and get them involved. I know, you know, I mean, you know, we want people to be able to communicate with one another. And I know that our program is not about talking about language things. And I and I think language is important. I think, you know, people learning a common language and and we've always we've always learned English in here.

Unfortunately, we don't have we don't have good English being taught in our schools anymore. But that's a whole nother topic. It is another topic.

But yeah, I always like to say, yeah, of course, you want to communicate with each other. And we do learn that in school. We do.

Yeah. But that doesn't mean you have to lose our heritage language. And in a global economy, it would be ridiculous for us to do so.

I'll just use the example of China. In China, you graduate from college and you speak at least three languages. And their national plan includes educating 200 million of their citizens to graduate from college by 2030. That's 200 million. That's larger than the entire United States workforce.

Yeah. 100 million young Chinese students all speaking three languages, college educated. Where do you think they're going to go work? They're going to want to come here.

They're going to want to go to Europe. So we can't be stuck in this monolingual place. We cannot we must learn other languages. So of course, we're going to learn English. I'm right here.

I started kindergarten speaking Spanish. We all we all Yeah. With all due respect, we also better be very careful about recognizing what what the CCP is overall plan is as well.

And I would not I would not hold up the CCP as a as as as a moniker of liberties or freedom that there's no I'm purely speaking about multi lingual capabilities and their necessity and global economies in which we are right. And so that is why it's important. You know, everybody I ever flew with in the Air Force because you know, I told you my story, I ended up getting a scholarship went to Berkeley halfway through I got the orientation flight at Williams Air Force Base, and they put me with a lady pilot. This was my third time in my life I was ever even on an airplane the first two times happened in college. I was never on a jet as a as a kid again. Seven people that's a lot of money for to airline tickets. We never flew.

Sure. So happy to college I got this flight with this lady pilot at Air Force Base. And she's the one who said this is something you can do. You're the only person I flew today who didn't throw up.

I had so much when I was giggling and I thought it was so fun. And so she put the idea in my head that I can go get selected for pilot training, navigator training, all the different trainings, but for things you know, and I was already halfway through college, right. So again, that that opportunity is there, but not if I don't know about it.

Absolutely. The moment that absolutely I pursued it, I could have said no too scary, but I pursued it and I was selected for navigate. Well, and and and your and your your statement about multi language is important because if America is going to continue to lead, then we are going to need to be able to have communication skills in multiple languages when when we lead on on the on a global stage as well as on a national stage. And and and and so you know, the the thrust towards education is critically important. And and I guess I to me, the biggest message that I draw from all of this is is is the opportunities are there, that that's the greatest thing, the opportunities are there. And the freedom to be able to make those choices and choose to pursue those dreams is something that we hold dear here that doesn't exist.

As you know, as I know, traveling around the world, you recognize that in other countries, you don't have the freedom into they tell you, this is what you're going to do. This is how you're going to learn. This is what you're going to learn. And and then all of a sudden, people come and begin to find out what what is really going on. Oh, well, wait a minute that they lied to us. Your opportunity here, you're born into a class structure.

Like I remember serving in the embassy in Quito, Ecuador, when I was an officer, I got an assignment down there for four months. And I remember you're born into a class structure. Like, yeah, I remember this man saying to me, if God wanted me to be an educated person, he would have had me be born to a rich family. Because there is no upward mobility.

And just let me close with a final minute. But I do a lot of ministry in India. And and in particular in Punjab, and they have a caste system. And one of the things that my preaching over there has done, as is break the caste system, we now have people from all different levels that are interacting with our pastors over there. And and that is is never before happened ever. We literally had the entire Christian member, all different denominations come to our church to hear the gospel for the first time in the history of Punjab.

First time in the history. So it's a beautiful example of opportunities exist. Amen. If you bring them to other people. Amen.

If you bring them to other people. Yeah. Because a kid like me and teach hope we got I got to jump to my next guest, as you know, hey, this has been wonderful. Captain mama quickly, where do they get the books? Captain mama.com bingo ace and you can be on Instagram it on Instagram.

It's very easy. Captain mama copy that mama all together on Instagram. All right, Captain mama.com all the information you need including the books.

Captain mama. I salute you. Thanks for being with me.

Greg. Awesome to have you with me. We'll take a break. We'll be back with more Children Generation Radio Don Jans joins me on the other side. Where do we find that hope? We'll be back right after this.