And in Lakeport California, hundreds gathered Saturday for the funeral of humanitarian aid worker and activist Marla Ruzicka. She died at the age of twenty eight last week in a bombing in Iraq. Three years ago she founded the group CIVIC–the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict — in order to tally the number of Iraqi civilian deaths in the war. She spent much of the past four years in Iraq and Afghanistan aiding civilians affected by the wars. Bobby Muller, of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, said “Marla demonstrated the fact that an individual can make a profound difference in this world. This woman was our inspiration.”