If you want to know what families experience when their children go off to war, read this book! These are your neighbors-'people just stepping out of their regular lives to make a point.' Listening to them will help put war in its human context, something many in Washington seem incapable of.

James Skelly, senior fellow at the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College and former US Navy officer who refused to

Family members of soldiers in Iraq speak here-often out of anguish and with breathtaking candor-in hopes that others won't have to, as one puts it, 'know what it's like to have someone [they love] in harm's way for no good reason.' Their moving stories demonstrate what it means to have a personal stake in the outcome of the current administration's war, showing the steps that ordinary Americans have taken to bring an end to the fighting and to bring their loved ones home.

Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Jane Collins provides those interested in antiwar activism and the recent military operations in Iraq with an insightful, personal account of one portion of the antiwar movement in the United States....For those seeking to gain further insight into current streams of antiwar activism or the effects of military service on loved ones who remain at home, this is also of great value....Collins has created is a wonderful primary source in print for scholars of antiwar activism.

Peace & Change

For Love of a Soldier collects stories of Americans who love their country and sent their loved ones to fight for it. It is the moving story of the absolute intriguing ordinariness that motivates our loved ones to join the military and fight in far-off lands. But most of all For Love of a Soldier is the pained story of military families who detest the war in Iraq and feel nothing but disdain for our leaders who have taken us into it. This wonderful book should be read by all Americans....

Charles B. Strozier, John Jay College, CUNY, John Jay College, CUNY; author of Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst

For Love of a Soldier collects stories of Americans who love their country and sent their loved ones to fight for it. It is the moving story of the absolute intriguing ordinariness that motivates our loved ones to join the military and fight in far-off lands. But most of all For Love of a Soldier is the pained story of military families who detest the war in Iraq and feel nothing but disdain for our leaders who have taken us into it. This wonderful book should be read by all Americans.

Charles B. Strozier, professor of history at John Jay College and the Graduate Center at CUNY, author of Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamen