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

Diana Oestreich a combat medic in the Army National Guard enlisted like both her parents before her. But when she was commanded to run over an Iraqi child to keep her convoy rolling and keep her battle buddies safe she was confronted with a choice she never thought shed have to make.Torn between Gods call to love her enemy and her countrys command to be willing to kill Diana chose to wage peace in a place of war. For the remainder of her tour of duty Diana sought to be a peacemaker--leading to an unlikely and beautiful friendship with an Iraqi family.A beautiful and gut-wrenching memoir Waging Peace exposes the false divide between loving our country and living out our faiths call to love our enemies--whether we perceive our enemy as the neighbor with an opposing political viewpoint the clerk wearing a head-covering or the refugee from a war-torn country. By showing that us-versus-them is a false choice this book will inspire each of us to choose love over fear.