more on women in the millitary

domestic abuse, violence, misogyny, rape, MURDER.

and please please please i implore you - write your senators and congress people about lavena johnson. she was murdered in iraq (most likely by a contractor). yet the military claims she committed suicide. just google her name and read about what was done to her. you will not only be horrifed at that BUT the lies her parents were told (her father is a doctor for goddess' sake) PLEASE

Military Town Newspaper Challenges US Military on Murder of Military Women

by: Ann Wright, t r u t h o u t | Report
"In a way, it's surprising that there aren't more bodies piling up at military bases all over this nation" - The Fayetteville Observer

The October 14, 2008 editorial in the Fayetteville, NC Observer "Our View: Military Domestic Violence Needs More Aggressive Prevention," focused on the murder of four military women in North Carolina and contained a startling comment: "In a way, it's surprising that there aren't more bodies piling up at military bases all over this nation." The Observer is the newspaper that serves Fort Bragg, one of the military's largest bases.

The editorial was in response to the vigil held on October 8 at the gates of Fort Bragg to commemorate the murder of four US military women in North Carolina in the past nine months, and to call for action to prevent more murders by members of the US military.

In a nine-month period from December 2007 to September 2008, four US military women were killed by military men near the Army's Fort Bragg and the Marine Corps's Camp Lejeune, two military mega-bases in North Carolina.........