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Arkansas: Leitz

November 3, 2009 - 09:28 am
NEWS FEED: Arkansas Times

Military wife speaks out

Lisa Leitz, an assistant professor of sociology at Hendrix College, writes in an essay posted on CNN's website today that she hopes President Obama will "consider the burden he is asking military families to bear" as he decides U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. Leitz is the wife of a U.S. Naval aviator deployed in Afghanistan and a member of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO). She writes:

In spite of military members’ best efforts over the last eight years, there has been little tangible progress made in Afghanistan. We are no closer to peace or national security because of our military might. Eight years of war have brought little to no improvement in public services, education, or equality to Afghanistan.

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November 3, 2009 - 09:21 am
NEWS FEED: Arkansas Times

Crushed by the weight

Lisa Leitz, an assistant professor of Sociology at Hendrix College and the wife of a U.S. Naval aviator currently deployed in Afghanistan, was interviewed on CNN this morning.  Her commentary on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is posted here.  Leitz says the toll the war is taking on military families and the lack of progress being made should lead Pres. Barack Obama to change course.

In the eight years of America’s war in Afghanistan, 911 military families lost their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters (and an additional 4,357 lost loved ones in Iraq). October 2009 was in fact the deadliest month of the war in all eight years.

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