Friday Evening Speaker MGySgt Nick Popaditch Confirmed Saturday Evening Speakers Lt. Colonel Jay Kopelman Confirmed Sunday Morning Speaker Corporal Aaron Mankin Confirmed Saturday Presenters Dr. Bridget Cantrell Confirmed Colonel Bryan P. McCoy Invited Authors' Hall MGySgt Nick Popaditch Confirmed Lt. Colonel Jay Kopelman Confirmed Dr. Bridget Cantrell Confirmed Robert Newman Confirmed Colonel Bryan P. McCoy Invited Master of Ceremonies Robert "Gunny Bob" Newman Confirmed

The Authors' Hall is your opportunity to meet in person with each of these prominent authors. Bring your books from home, or purchase the books at the conference* to have each author sign your copy.

Please check back as we add to our growing list of distinguished authors for the 2009 Conference!

If you are the author of a book and would like to be considered for this event, please contact us.

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MGySgt Nick Popaditch
USMC Retired
Speaker and Author

• Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander’s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery

Click here to read full biography.

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LtCol Jay Kopelman
USMC Retired
Speaker and Author

• From Baghdad, with Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
• From Baghdad to America: Life Lessons from a Dog Named Lava

Click here to read full biography.

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Dr. Bridget C. Cantrell
Author and Presenter

• Downrange: To Iraq and Back
• Once a Warrior: Wired for Life
• Souls Under Seige: The Effects of Multiple Deployments on Troops

Click here to read full biography.

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Gunny Bob Newman
USMC Retired
Author of 22 books
Master of Ceremonies

• Guerrillas in the Mist: A Battlefield Guide to Clandestine Warfare
• Minefields to Microphones: Global Asymmetric Warfare, the Radical Left and Winning the War on Terror
• The War for America: Liberal Extremism, Moral Turpitude, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Click here to read full biography.

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Colonel Bryan P. McCoy, USMC
Invited
Author

• The Passion of Command: The Moral Imperative of Leadership

Click here to read full biography.

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*Proceeds or portions of the proceeds from the sale of the following speakers' books will go to support:

• Jay Kopelman: Enduring Freedom Killed in Action Fund and the Freedom is Not Free Fund
• Colonel Bryan P. McCoy, The Passion of Command : Semper Fi Fund
• Dr. Bridget Cantrell: Hearts Toward Home Foundation