'Let's go home son' is how we captioned the photo
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Newshour with Jim Lehrer interview; Homefront Battles Our first media interview speaking out as military family, Lietta and Arthur Ruger, on Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Homefront Battles; aired Oct 04. Focus of this Newshour piece was the new phenomenom of military families speaking out publicly. MICHAEL BESCHLOSS - "We're seeing something that really is unusual because military families in history have been pretty much inclined not to do this sort of thing. It's in a way sort of part of that culture. And the fact that they are doing it now shows how deeply many of them feel about the fact that they were never convinced at the beginning of this war that it was the right thing to do." Below is a list of Lietta's other thirty plus military family speaking out media covered interviews that came after the Newshour piece.
Lietta's account of our meeting with U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell challenging her continued position of support for Iraq war I had the opportunity to participate in this almost 2 hour meeting with Sen. Cantwell as a military family with 2 returning Iraq veterans in our family, both from Washington. Nine other participants - veterans, humanitarians, Iraqi-American citizen, teacher, political and peace activists - brought and shared their concerns in this scheduled meeting with our U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell from Washington (state) on April 10, 2006. The entire focus of the meeting was to ask Sen. Cantwell to discuss her position on war in Iraq, which she did. See my report and that of another participant on that meeting; click on link below. Sen. John Kerry and his wife were guests at fundraiser for Sen. Cantwell the next day. Several of our military family members in WA attended in hopes of sharing their concerns for their deployed loved ones with both Senators. Several did have opportunity to speak briefly with both Senators.
Lietta's other speaking out media interviews
What began in March 2004 on a small, local scale with sermons I prepared and delivered in my local church, speaking out about the war in Iraq, was altered when I agreed to do an interview with Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
Chronicling below a list of media interviews I've done since then as a military family speaking out. Listing chronologically with most recent interviews at top.
Lietta Ruger, member Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), week at Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas
representing our
Ehren Watada with Daniel Ellsberg
Citizens' Hearing on Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq
Lietta introduces the Panelists who will hear two days of testimony at Citizens' Hearing on Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq, Tacoma, WA, Jan 20-21-2007
Lietta Ruger and Ann Wright at Citizens' Hearing on Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq, Tacoma, WA, Jan 20-21-2007.
Lietta in support of Lt. Ehren Watada at his first press conference, June 2006, Tacoma, WA. Photograph: Ted S Warren/AP
Lietta with MFSO- WA chapter members Judy and Jenny in support at Lt Watada noon press conference, June 2006.
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