collisionwork | Unspeakable

I have been reading stories about the (what would seem to be unquestioned) murder of Private First Class LaVena Johnson, whose mutilated body was returned from Iraq to her family as a "suicide," according to the U.S. Army.

There is a good brief overview with links to other stories HERE at Jezebel. I don't personally want to say any more about this, just please read. I can't stand to do so anymore.

I am hoping that her father, Dr. John Johnson, is actually able to make good on his comment to the Army coroner - "Somebody murdered my daughter and you picked the wrong person to fuck with." - but I fear the whole thing will be just vanished like so much else (like say, the medical records dealing with an operation performed by the Army on someone I know well, which was botched and nearly killed him, and which has been apparently made to have "never happened," as far as the Army is concerned, last I heard).

Sometimes I really do wish I could believe in karmic retribution, but I can't and I don't, and we have to do all we can to make these things as right as we can ourselves, and now.

Sorry for the downer. It's the world we're in.