Retired Marine Corps Colonel Tom Manion will be speaking at the Bean on Feb. 27 at 5 pm about his book Brothers Forever" and about the Travis Manion Foundation, named for his son, a Marine 1st Lieutenant killed in action. 

The description of the book on Amazon.com is below, and more information is at the book's website here.

Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in

Afghanistan, these two former roommates and best friends were now buried together—"brothers forever."

Award-winning journalist Tom Sileo and Travis's father, Colonel Tom Manion, USMCR (Ret.), tell the intimate and personal story of how these Naval Academy roommates defined a generation's sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq. From Travis's incredible bravery on the streets of Fallujah to Brendan's anguished SEAL training in the wake of his friend's death and later acts of heroism in the mountains of Afghanistan, Brothers Forever is a remarkable story of war and friendship.