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Demand Justice for PFC LaVena Johnson
By all accounts, LaVena Johnson was a happy, healthy, strong young woman when she joined the military as a supply specialist.
A few months later she was dead in Iraq, a victim of a non-combat gunshot wound to the head. As bad as the news of the death of their daughter, was the discovery of substantial evidence that she was raped, murdered, and her body twice set afire in a failed attempt to cover up the crimes. The United States Army is refusing to re-open the hitherto lackluster and barely cursory investigation into LaVena's death, and in the face of this mounting evidence, their refusal is beginning to reek of a cover-up.
LaVena's story can be read at LaVenaJohnson.com , and there is an online petition to the Armed Services Committees in Congress that you can sign there to demand that the Army re-open the investigation and actually put some effort into it this time.
Please take a few moments to read LaVena's tragic and compelling story, and ask Congress to hold the Army to the standard which we expect of those in charge of looking out for our women and men in uniform.
tragic...
i am really saddened to read about this woman's tragic death, but thinking about it i'm not that surprised. i was in the US air force 1978-1982 and while most of the guys i worked with were very protective of me, i also have never felt more vulnerable and threatened. i can remember a few incidents where i felt sure that i was in danger of being raped and violently assaulted.
it's a difficult situation for people who have never in the military to understand, logic says men and women are equal and should be able to do the same job, but the military is an abherrant organization. it requires people to live and work in close proximity under very stressful conditions. normal social conditioning goes out the window.
there is no excuse for the violence that this woman has been subjected to...none at all... i plan to keep up on this case, she deserves justice.