Carol Kline

After studying journalism, public speaking, marketing and broadcasting at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa., Carol Kline began writing feature articles in addition to writing her own weekly column for more than three years in the Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Pa Now semi-retired from a singing career, she and her husband live in Sebring, Fla., where her love of writing continues.Beginning in February 2013, she wrote numerous feature stories for the News-Sun, a local Sebring paper, including a four-part series about their daughter, Major Kristine Ratliff, RN, USAF, Retired. Kristine had suffered a severe traumatic brain injury due to a tragic auto accident in April 2010.Her daughter's ongoing struggle to recover - learning to speak, to walk, to eat, and to care for herself - continues today. Major Ratliff's journey back has become both an inspirational and motivational story. Having served two deployments as a pediatric intensive care unit nurse at the Balad Joint Base Hospital, Major Ratliff's most difficult time during her ongoing recovery was when she was placed in a nursing home. While it had been Kline's greatest desire to write an inspirational book based on her daughter's recovery, it soon became her cause: Today's young male and female veterans cannot go to nursing homes."Home Of the Brave" talks about the need for preserving the dignity and rights of the men and women who serve to keep our country free.A former health care executive and professional vocalist for many years, Kline has written and recorded three gospel songs, three children's books (available on Amazon.com), and she is also a motivational/inspirational speaker.