we can't allow cover-ups of military deaths

EVER. pat tillman's family fought for the truth. they got PART of it, but i don't believe they'll ever get it all.

lavena johnson's parents NEVER got one word of truth (much less a partial one). she was so very obviously raped and murdered then set on fire. they told her parents (her father is a doctor mind you) she killed herself. they're STILL saying she killed herself. we CANNOT allow the heroes of our armed services to die then surround their families with LIES and untruths. we OWE them at the very least the truth

now another cover up. they told seaman provost's mother he collapsed in the guard shack then died. they forgot to tell her HE WAS SHOT AND SET ON FIRE (whoops, that's quite a lot to forget). his mother HEARD THAT INFORMATION ON THE NEWS. shite. that is NOT right

i don't care if someone is gay or straight. a woman or a man. black, brown, yellow, red or green. THEY ARE OUR HEROES WE ALL DESERVE THE TRUTH

Jackson Lee wants deeper look into sailor death
Family says he was harassed because he was gay

By JENNIFER LATSON

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee called Sunday for an investigation into the death of a Houston sailor who was shot to death while on duty in California last month.

Navy Seaman August Provost III, 29, was killed June 30 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Southern California, where he was standing watch at a base compound. Navy officials said Provost, who grew up in Houston's Acres Homes neighborhood, was shot to death and his body burned.

Provost's family has speculated that the shooting might have been a hate crime, because the sailor was gay.

“I am requesting a full investigation into the murder,” Jackson Lee said Sunday. “This death appears bizarre, and more facts need to be uncovered.”...........

i've not seen the video

nor will i. i will take the word of the written account. i wonder why the mothers and fathers and families and friends of our heroes cannot know the truth. if i was president i would NEVER STAND for that kind of treatment (then again, if i was president we would never be in iraq)

not much more to say other than to the friends and families of pfc suarez-gonzalez and pfc nelson, i am so very sorry for your loss

(as i am with EVERYONE's losses)

Friendly fire in Iraq -- and a coverup

The Army says no, but a graphic video and eyewitness testimony indicate that a U.S. tank killed two American soldiers. The mother of one soldier demands answers.

Editor's note: Mark Benjamin's friendly fire investigation contains 1) the main article, 2) video documentation and 3) the Army's own report on the killing of Nelson and Suarez.

By Mark Benjamin

Oct. 14, 2008 | PHILADELPHIA -- Once a cop, always a cop. Asked if she wanted to see a graphic battle video showing her son Albert bleeding to death, Jean Feggins, retired from the Philadelphia Police Department, said yes.

"Listen, I've moved dead bodies of people I don't even know," she told me, as she sat on a brown couch in the den of her West Philadelphia row house. "I need to know everything. Because he is not a stranger. That's my baby. That's my child."

When Pfc. Albert Nelson died in Iraq in 2006, the Army first told Feggins that he might have been killed by friendly fire, and then that it was enemy mortars. She says she never believed the Army's explanation. "I always felt like they were lying to me," she said. "I could never prove it."

"I would ask the casualty officer what was going on. I'd be told they are still working on the report," she said. "They were still doing their investigation. What could I do? It's the U.S. military. I had no control."............