An email from a reader at Jezebel alerted me to today’s post there on LaVena Johnson.
This is Private First Class LaVena Johnson of Missouri. An honors student who nonetheless didn’t quite know what she wanted to do with her life, she enlisted in the Army right out of high school in 2003 and was sent [...]
From the monthly archives:
June 2008
Even though the petition to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and the House closed on May 24, constituents of the members of the two committees can still lend their voices to the effort to prompt a new investigation of LaVena’s death by contacting those legislators directly. Reprised below is contact information for those [...]
Writer Kate Harding – founder of Shapely Prose, contributor to Shakesville and Fatshionista – posts today on Salon’s Broadsheet on the tragedy surrounding the death in Iraq of PFC LaVena Johnson.
Salon has published quite a bit about how American women in the military sometimes face more danger from their fellow soldiers than from their enemies, [...]
The New Zealand Herald has published an article on LaVena Johnson, written by contributing columnist Tracey Barnett who interviewed LaVena’s parents, John and Linda:
“I’m telling you there is no pain like it – there is no pain like it in this world. My daughter, the way they took her and what they did to her [...]
I attended Wednesday’s panel discussion on LaVena Johnson at Legacy Books & Cafe – the Black & Green Wednesday event sponsored by the Gateway Greens Alliance and the Universal African Peoples Organization – but readers would doubtless be better served by video on the event. That content is on the way; I hope to get [...]
St. Louis CBS affiliate KMOV-TV ran a story last night on the case of PFC LaVena Johnson. Reported by Matt Sczesny, the story features new comments by LaVena’s father, Dr. John Johnson, as he spoke at a press conference yesterday. Also mentioned is a response from a staffer for the House Armed Services Committee.
This is [...]