On a Sunday afternoon in February, a young man made a plea to a room full of 400 antiwar activists who had gathered in St. Louis for three days of strategizing on how to end the war in Iraq. “I’m probably the most experienced activist in my organization and I’ve been an activist for one […]
Karen Houppert
Karen Houppert, an Air Force brat and a New York journalist, is the author of Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military — for Better or Worse (Ballantine Books), about military wives whose husbands have been deployed. Reprinted with permission from the March 25, 2005, issue of The Nation, www.thenation.com.
