Where Murder Is Suicide
December 9, 2013
In the military, of course. “Her autopsy report and photographic evidence revealed that Johnson had a black eye, broken nose, loose teeth and burned genιtals. Also, the gunshot wound she received was inconsistent with the military’s story of how the young woman died. Despite evidence to the contrary, the Department of Defense stood by its original conclusion that Johnson had died via suicide.”
How many young women have to be assaulted or die before parents stop thinking the military is a career option for their daughters?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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