Book Review: Skin in the Game

"Skin in the Game: Journey of a Mother and Her Marine Son"

{From Friend Lietta Ruger}Recommending this newly published book; please share. My friends who well remember that time may appreciate the first hand account from another mother of a Marine deployed in Iraq.

Peggy Logue is mother of a returning Iraq veteran (Marine) who was with the Lima Company 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. 20 killed in one week in first week of August 2005 in Iraq in what then Pres. Bush termed a 'noble cause'.

You remember what came next - Camp Casey at Crawford in Aug 2005; Bring Them Home Now tour Crawford to DC in Sept 2005. I met Peggy on the BTHN tour on our stops in Ohio. I not only met them, they put us up, the traveled with us through the state of Ohio and yearned to go with us all the way to D.C. The Books Face Book Page to Join

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It’s an age-old axiom: if you don’t support the war, you don’t support the troops. And Peggy Logue couldn’t disagree more.

When Peggy’s nineteen-year-old son, U.S. Marine Michael Logue, is deployed to a volatile area of Iraq, Peggy suddenly faces an alarming challenge to her anti-war sensibilities. Should she remain silent or give voice to her feelings? Despite being called a “coward," Peggy takes to the streets for her anti-war protests in a determined attempt to understand the reasons for her son’s duty to his country and the politics of war.

Peggy’s protests, her stress over Mike’s deployment, and her fierce pride in her son hurtle her along an emotional roller coaster for the entire year of Mike’s tour. Yet not once does she compromise her beliefs, but instead asks the tough questions and demands answers. What she discovers, however, is human nature’s predilection for violence. Only by becoming warriors for peace will war cease to exist.

Intense, raw, and profoundly honest, Skin in the Game illustrates the human side of war and the daily struggle for peace. But even more, it is the story of the struggle of an anti-war mama bear and her son in combat listening, respecting, and always loving each other.