A Blue Star For The Troops And Mom’s Mission

Posted on | December 23, 2010 | No Comments

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(Nashville, TN) – Standing up and supporting our troops through songs while trying to bolster the morale of our troops is an exhausting mission, a mission Songwriter and Army Mom Angela Lashley is proud to do.

Lashley’s life was forever changed when she received a phone call from her son Jonathan “Mom, I’m joining the Army” he said. Those few words would change Lashley’s purpose for moving to Nashville and lead to a song called “So Brave” that would tell her son how brave he is while supporting military families everywhere.

After the life changing phone call, Lashley and her husband sat in silence until Lashley said aloud “when did he get so brave?” That sentence put her on a journey to honor her son’s bravery, and comfort others in the same situation she found herself in.

Lashley came to Nashville to pursue her song writing career after her children were all grown and off to college. She had always been told she was talented and decided to pursue this career she loved. However, once she reached Nashville and found out her son was enlisting in the Army, that musical path would change for Lashley. It drove her to write songs that engulf her emotions and the experiences she’s encountered as an Army Mom, and express them in a way only she can.

After the song “So Brave” was released, more songs followed that were inspired by the loved ones of soldiers from all over the world who contacted Angela about So Brave. These songs not only touched the families with relatives in the Armed Forces, but the troops as well. It soon expanded farther than that, by touching people’s lives that don’t have anyone enlisted but could feel what these families feel.

These songs deemed Lashley the “Musical Military Mom of this War”, a title she is very proud to hold!

The song “So Brave” is politically vague. Instead it expresses the love and support for the troops and their families who sacrifice their loved ones through absence and death, to protect a country we’re proud to call home. It emphasizes the courage of servicemen and women facing danger day in and out, 24 hours a day. Most importantly it’s an open expression of a mother’s perception of how brave her child is, and how proud she is of him. That’s what her songs are all about.

Lashley’s goal is to help build the morale of the troops, which is very low, through her gift of music; and let these troops know they are loved and appreciated by everyone here back home.

Lashley has a holiday project to help build the morale of our troops. That is to have a blue star shining in the window of households nationwide. The meaning of the Blue Star is extolled and honored in Lashley’s song “Blue Star in the Window.” Her vision is for those who would hear the song in the media to understand the meaning of the near forgotten symbol of the American military mother. She believes nothing could be more effective to raise the morale of troops everywhere, home for the holidays or not, than for there to be a BLUE STAR shining in a window in every neighborhood in this country on Christmas Eve. A printable BLUE STAR for windows and the song singing its message are free from her website.

You can find out more about Lashley by visiting her website http://sobravesong.com or purchase “So Brave” through CD Baby at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/angelalashley