Ruth Irene Garrett was the fifth of seven children raised in Kalona, Iowa, as a member of a strict Old Order Amish community. She was brought up in a world filled with rigid rules and intense secrecy, in an environment where the dress, buggies, codes of conduct, and way of life differed even from...
The one question that I ask you [is] if someone was in the Army if they could ever be kind again? For someone had told me that once someone is in the Army they take all the kindness away. —LETTER FROM MOM Ottie Garrett rolled into Kalona in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell. He was among hundre...