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“Her husband had come home a hero. But he'd also come home with memory issues, a limp, PTSD, and a huge ration of cynicism that he hadn't had before.”

Book:Ambush

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“It took a war to shatter the singular lens of Us Versus Them. It took meeting the people I've been told were my enemy in order to value those I've been told were my enemy back home where I lived. Before the War, I view the world through lenses obscured by false patriotism, white supremacy and self-centered religion. I didn't even know I was wearing these glasses or seeing the world through them until I went to war and saw my beliefs in action. Bullets and bombs cleared my ears to the still soft voice of the Divine “But I love them Diana, I love them too.”

Inspirational War Faith Christianity Veteran Peacemaking

Book:Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

“I don’t want my kids to hold an anemic love in their hands, to feel lost or victimized in a big, scary world. I want them to experience their power that resides in their little bodies and expresses itself in quiet, small words to defy hate and violence.”

Inspirational War Faith Veteran Peacemaking

Book:Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

“I had no control over what the Iraq War would ask of me; the only thing I could decide was how I would show up in it. What I would do. What I wouldn't do. In that decision I found what was worth dying for and what was worth living for- love.”

War Inspiration Spirituality Veteran Peacemaking

Book:Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

“Waging peace requires that we have the courage to face what's broken first- in ourselves-and then in the system affecting those around us and uncover who has been harmed and how we are connected to them.”

Inspirational War Spirituality Veteran Peacemaking

Book:Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

“Coming home from War as a peacemaker created a battlefield I wasn't prepared for.”

Inspirational War Spirituality Veteran Peacemaking

Book:Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

“Violence isn't waged only with guns, or war. Words can be violent, and so can the Erasure of wrongdoing.”

Inspirational War Veteran Peacemaking Sprituality

Author:Diana Oestreich

“We were supposed to be enemies, Americans and Iraqi’s, Muslims and Christians, newer immigrants and historical immigrants. But here we were, huddled around the table together, with candle lights flickering off cheeks and smiling eyes.”

Inspirational War Spirituality Veteran Peacemaking

Book:Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

“تذكر حلاوة الوصال يهن عليك مر المجاهدة”

Religion مجاهدة

Book:الفوائد

Source: الفوائد

“Giving your life away is the only way to truly find it. Loving our enemies is what transforms fear into Freedom. Love has the power to change us.”

Inspirational War Spirituality Veteran Peacemaking

Book:Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

“Showing up when violence wounds a community is what love looks like in public. Loving first, with our presence instead of only our prayers, wasn't safe but laying down my weapon in a war wasn't safe either. But it's what you do when you belong to each other.”

Inspirational War Spirituality Veteran Peacemaking

Book:Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

Source: Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First

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