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KRISTIN HENDERSON has written frequently about military issues, including two cover stories for the Washington Post Magazine, where this book had its origins. A practicing Quaker and occasional amateur racer of Corvettes, Henderson is married to a Navy chaplain who served with the Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq, and she is active in the Marine Corps" Key Volunteer family readiness program. The idea for Hidden Homefront came to Henderson when her husband was in Iraq and a neighbor asked, "Wow, what is that like, having him in harm"s way?" Henderson says, "It hit me then, that most Americans no longer personally know what it"s like to send someone you love to war."Henderson, Kristin is the author of 'While They're at War The True Story of American Families on the Homefront', published 2006 under ISBN 9780618773459 and ISBN 0618773452.
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