Leah Bolger is a retired Navy Commander with 20 years of US Military Service, a full time Peace Activist and President of Veterans for Peace. VFP works to educate the public about the true cost and consequences of war by looking past the headlines that justify war to focuses on the people living and dying with the weapons and destruction aimed at them. Leah’s first hand experience helps us move away from abstract political & economic discussions of war to confront its reality with an aim of building coalitions for peace.