While They’re At War

Most media accounts about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan center on the service members: the battles they fight, the casualties they face, and their joyful returns home to their families. As members of the military face longer and more frequent wartime deployments, journalist and military spouse Kristin Henderson tells a lesser-known story about what happens to the thousands of families left behind. During 2003 and 2004, she profiled two very different military wives living on Fort Bragg. One embraced the military’s support system; the other became a war protester. Host David Crabtree talks with Kristin Henderson, author of “While They’re At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront” (Houghton Mifflin/2006). He also talks with Marissa Bootes, one of the wives profiled in the book. Listener Call-In. (54:00) (CP)

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