Lietta Ruger - Profile

Hi my name is Lietta (pronounced Lee-etta). While I have a rich life history that makes my world-views what they are today, at this time in our current history with the war in Iraq, I pull heavily on my focus as a military family with 2 loved ones deployed in Iraq. Both served already in an extended 15 month tour in Iraq 2003 - 2004, and are now under orders for a re-deployment (2nd deployment) to Iraq.

Being raised a military brat, I come from a history of being a child inside a military culture. As a young wife to a husband drafted to Vietnam, I am marked by that era in our history as is the family we raised in the following years. Now I find that I am a mother-in-law and aunt to 2 new Iraq veterans who will be serving yet again in the carnage and destruction that marks the war in Iraq.

My history as a professional, social worker, has taught me well to assimilate a variety of world-views, yet it did not prepare me well enough for the divisiness we see in our popular culture now in our country. I struggle to grasp, comprehend and understand it and am not sure I am doing such a good job in "getting it" yet. Well, I do "get it", of course, but understand the phenomenom that has set citizen against citizen, civilian against civilian, while the troops have devolved into a culture of their own in trying to cope with the discrepancies that have become hallmark characteristics in the war in Iraq.

I did not live my entire adult life, raise my children in accordance with the rules of the culture, only to find those rules of accord have been turned upside down. As a mother and grandmother, I cannot turn away from the inheritance of the richness of this country as their rightful legacy, nor can I be idle in watching it slip away to be replaced by whatever is morphing as our country's identity.

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Lietta Ruger, Contributing Editor; <a href="http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/military_families_iraq">Military Families: Impact with Loved Ones deployed to Iraq</a>

visit also one of my blogs, <a href="http://dyingwarriors.blogspot.com/">Dying to Preserve the Lies</a>

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To give Dignity to Man is Above all Things. First Nation Proverb.

Courage doesn't always shout. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, "I will try again tomorrow."

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