Tammara Rosenleaf is the wife of Army Specialist Sean Hefflin, who serves with the 4th Infantry Division, currently in Ft. Hood, Texas.

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 has attended every major march in Washington DC since September 24, 2005, and has spoken at events from Eyes Wide Open in Ithaca, New York, to college peace gatherings in Washington State.

Through 2006, while her husband was deployed, she 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 several displays of the national traveling memorial “Eyes Wide Open“. With her friend Charlie Anderson of Iraq Veterans Against the War she co-founded Bake Sales for Body Armor, a non-profit organization that raises money to buy body armor that troops in Iraq or Afghanistan are lacking.

Tammara was on the organizing team for the Thanksgiving and Easter Gatherings at Crawford, TX in 2005 and 2006. She organized the civil disobedience at those gatherings and is the coordinator of the Prairie Chapel 12+6, who were arrested for violating the McClennan County ordinances preventing camping in the ditches surrounding the Bush Ranchette. 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.

In 2007, Tammara traveled to Washington DC for protests in January and March, and in March was a part of the first Operation First Casualty with members of IVAW. In April and May, she traveled with Wheels of Justice as a featured speaker on its Southwest Tour. At the end of May 2007, Tammara accepted a field director position with the campaign “Iraq Summer 2007″ and spent the summer directing a team of 10 field organizers to bring poltical pressure to bear on candiates in Michigan State.

Currently, Tammara is living in Killeen, TX with her husband. It has been over 3 years since they have been able to live together, and she guards her time with him closely, although she remains active in the peace movement.

Her husband Sean 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.”

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.She is a member of Military Families Speak Out, Helena (MT) Peace Seekers, as well as a supporter of the Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Veterans for Peace.