The “Suicide” of U.S. Army Private LaVena Lynn Johnson
August 4th, 2008Via: Lew Rockewell:
According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Private LaVena Lynn Johnson killed herself on July 19, 2005, eight days before her twentieth birthday. Exactly how did she end her life? She punched herself in the face hard enough to blacken her eyes, break her nose, and knock her front teeth loose. She douched with an acid solution after mutilating her genital area. She poured a combustible liquid on herself and set it afire. She then shot herself in the head. Despite this massive self-inflicted trauma, she somehow managed to drag her then fully clothed body into the tent of a KBR contractor, leaving a trail of blood along the way and set the tent ablaze in a failed attempt to cover up her crimes against herself.
If this story sounds plausible to you, you may have missed your calling as an officer in the U.S. Army, because Army officers, speaking with a straight face, would have you believe that such a thing is not only possible, but actually happened.
In reality, LaVena Johnson was raped, beaten, and murdered by someone on a military base in Balad, Iraq, and the Army doesn’t want you to know about it. Army officers most especially didn’t want her parents to know about it, so they concocted the suicide story, informing them that their daughter had shot herself in the head in her barracks.
When LaVena’s body was returned to her parents, however, her father, Dr. John Johnson, immediately noticed that her nose was broken and her lip was torn. He was surprised to discover that her gloves were glued to her hands (as it turns out, to hide burns). As a former military man himself, he also recognized that the exit wound from the bullet could not possibly have come from the weapon the military claimed LaVena used to kill herself. He knew then that the Army was lying to him, that his daughter had been murdered. He made these discoveries three years ago. Today, the Army is still lying to him, and to us.
A petition to urge Henry Waxman, as the website puts it, “to hold hearings to investigate LaVena’s death and the Army’s cover-up.”
http://www.colorofchange.org/lavena/?id=2279-642142
My heart and prayers go to the Johnson family, who I imagine are in a state of shock and an utter rage of disbelief. How can one mourn the loss of a loved one when such idiotic contempt through the spreading of such lies has been piled on their loved ones funeral pyre?
Woe to the Army, the Marines, the Air Force or whatever maligancy of the human spirit has so infected them that this death could be “called” a suicide. They are ignorant as to how a wrongful death riles the human spirit, and rightful or not, how those who remain will do all they can to avenge their loved ones death.
And YO PINHEADS in storyland.
SUICIDE is not LONGER A VIABLE END TO THE STORY.
The STORY LINE IS WORN OUT ALREADY. WILL NOT SELL ANY MORE NOVELS. GET A NEW STORYTELLER because I am so tired of your bullshit.
There is a certain place in the spririt world to those who dishonor those who have passed on.
First of all, you will start having nightmares, worms coming out your body, to reflect your rotting soul. Then you will not be able to sleep at night for fear the maggots will implant themselves in your ears, to grow and eat your brains out.
Of course, you who spread such lies will go insane yourself. There’s no way around it. So I guess you just better fess up to the fact that Ms. Lavena did not commit suicide. There is no way she could have.
Somewhere there is a light at the end of these horrible, horrible wars. Hah, and when the real guilt sets in for the lies and the coverups set in, what are we going to have? More suicides?
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin’
I echo your sentiments, Eileen. I think what helps the monsters in the world get away with so much is that people just won’t except that there are monsters in the world, not among “ordinary folk”, anyway. Saddam, Bin Laden, sure — they’re bigger than life, and it doesn’t hurt that they’re Muslim. But plain ol’ Americans? Never!