Kristin Henderson

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."