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 [...]
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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 [...]
The effort to prompt a renewed investigation of the suspicious death in Iraq of PFC LaVena Johnson has always had a strong ally in retired Army Colonel Ann Wright. Today, Col. Wright speaks out on LaVena’s case and that of other military women – in-theater and in the US – who have died following sexual [...]
Someone familiar with the story of LaVena Johnson forwarded to me a Boston Globe story by Noah Bierman that is hauntingly familiar: Mystery surrounds death of soldier Quincy woman is called a noncombat casualtyThe Massachusetts National Guard soldier from Quincy who died in Afghanistan Friday was found with a single bullet in her head lying [...]
It is a pleasure to note that The Barack Obama Report – a campaign blog independent of the senator’s official presidential effort – has written about LaVena Johnson. The post, the concern it evinces for soldiers and their families, and the attention it will bring to LaVena’s story, are all greatly appreciated. However, the blog [...]
Many thanks to Bill Wolfrum, guest-blogging at Crooks & Liars, for including us in his blog roundup. He noted that LaVena’s father, Dr. John Johnson, will be speaking Friday at the Veterans for Peace convention in St. Louis (as posted here yesterday). This is the second time that C&L has brought needed attention to LaVena’s [...]