i belive stories of 'non-combat' deaths

like that of Pfc. Hannah Gunterman McKinney MUST be brought to light. there are far too many of them (the figure hovers around 700, but i think in reality it may be much higher). there are parents who are at a loss. there are children. there are brothers and sisters and spouses. there are MANY UNANSWERED questions. why do the families have to fight the military for the truth (or even the partial truth or even a kernel of the truth????)

it looks like the parents of pfc mckinney got some of the answers they deserved. many other families NEVER WILL.

these people are our heroes. they don't deserve this.

to the parents, family and friends of pfc Hannah Gunterman McKinney, my thoughts and prayers are with you. i am so very sorry for your loss

she was 20, she volunteered for active duty. she had a 2 year old son
and SHE WAS KILLED (not by an iraqi or a terrorist or an al-qaeda)

A Drunken Night in Iraq, a Soldier Left Behind
Woman Is Run Over, Abandoned by a Sergeant. Her Family Wants to Know Why.

By Donna St. George Washington Post Staff Writer
The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured. Her right side was marked by the angular tread of a tire.
Pfc. Hannah Gunterman McKinney was 20 years old, the brown-eyed mother of a toddler son, when she was spotted in the headlights of a passing Humvee on a perimeter road at one of the largest U.S. military camps in Iraq.
Thirteen hours later, in Redlands, Calif., Barbie and Matt Heavrin, who had three children in the military, learned they had lost their elder daughter to "injuries suffered when she was struck by a vehicle," as the Army first described it.
But there was more to the story. For the Heavrins, the events of Sept. 4, 2006, inside the wire of Camp Taji emerged bit by bit. McKinney's last hours, they would learn, involved alcohol, sex and a decorated reservist who was responsible for looking out for junior enlisted soldiers such as their daughter. .........

please also stop by the lavena johnson petition page. HER family NEVER got answers........