A Soldier Fights for Empathy

01/25/2008- By Nicole Brodeur, The Seattle Times

The Iraq War came to Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart the other day in the form of a young woman.
 

Army Reserve Capt. Ashleigh Fortier visited the Bellevue private school as part of its daylong Senior Seminar, which this year focused on those who come home from the war.
 

Fortier, 36, of Tacoma, spent 14 months in Baqouba, overseeing military police and training Iraqi police officers. It changed her, and made coming home a struggle all its own.

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