Finding Our
Voices facilitates discussion about
democracy, free speech and how individuals can
make a difference. Host a showing of the film
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Sue
Niederer continued
"That's Seth --
the big, obnoxious, beautiful smile that I
spent 5,000 dollars on -- worth every penny.
That's who I lost -- my buddy, my pal, my right
arm. He meant the world to me and I lost him
for nothing. Absolutely, positively, nothing."
- SUE NIEDERER
SUE NIEDERER wasn't an
activist until she lost her son Seth, who was
killed in Iraq in February 2004. Sue believes
her son died needlessly: he wasn't adequately
trained to disarm the bomb that killed him, he
died in a war that should never have started.
After his death, Sue joined Military Families
Speak Out and she now lifts her voice against
the war in front of average Americans ... and
Laura Bush.
More About Sue
Niederer
Sue Niederer is a high
school substitute teacher who lives in
Pennington, New Jersey.Prior
to the war she, like many Americans, was not
particularly active in political issues.Her
life was focused on her work and the role she
considered most important… being Seth Dvorin’s
mother.Only with her son’s involvement in the
war did Sue become an activist.Now,
both tragically and passionately, she is an
outspoken advocate for Gold Star
Families Speak Out an organization of
people who have lost family members in the
war.Sue has turned her grief intoaction speaking in
colleges, high schools and to the media against
the deceptive practices of military recruiters.
She tries to warn
impressionable young people and their families
that promises of bonuses, health care and
college expenses are not what they seem, in
hopes that they will be spared the fate of her
son for whom she continues to work as…. a
mom.
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