Tammara Rosenleaf
Tammara Rosenleaf is the wife of Army Specialist Sean Hefflin, who serves with the 4th Infantry Division, currently deployed to Iraq.
Tammara spent 22 days in Crawford, Texas at Camp 1 during the summer of 2005. She was a key organizer in the Crawford Peace Movement, and subsequently went on the Bring Them Home Now Tour, speaking at 25 events over a period of 21 days, driving the bus over 4000 miles, and providing organization for the tour. Tammara attended the September 24, 2005 march in Washington DC, and has since spoken at events from Eyes Wide Open in Ithaca, New York, to college peace gatherings in Washington State.
She is a member of Military Families Speak Out, Helena (MT) Peace Seekers, as well as a supporter of the Iraq Vets Against the War and the Veterans for Peace. She was on the organizing team for the Thanksgiving and Easter Gatherings at Crawford. She organized the civil disobedience at those gatherings and is the coordinator of the Prairie Chapel 12+6. She is also one of the 5 named plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit that has arisen out of the the McClennan County Court’s refusal to give the Prairie Chapel 12+6 their day in court.
Her husband believes in and supports her work for peace. He is openly proud of her work to his fellow troops and says that one of the reasons he is a solider “is to support people’s rights. Tammara has a right to free speech and its exercise, and it would be a poor reward for my sacrifice if she failed to use it.”
Through 2006, while her husband has been deployed, she has continued her work in the anti-war movement, speaking in a number of venues, participating in Military Families Speak Out Operation House Call, holding screenings of “The Ground Truth“, organizing and speaking at the display of the national traveling memorial “Eyes Wide Open“.
Tammara has been active in social justice movements since the Vietnam War, and had four uncles that served in that war, including her Uncle Jim who died of bone cancer related to Agent Orange in April of 2005. It is Tammara’s passionate belief that the people of this country are the only power that can stop the illegal, immoral war in Iraq and she has dedicated herself to that cause. She requests the prayers of the nation for her husband, and for all our troops.