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Founder of MotherSpeak, host of Raising Sand Radio, and a GI Rights counselor. Her son served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and her latest book is a collection of essays on war and its consequences based on her interviews with mothers across the United States and the Middle East. It’s called Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War and Terror.

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