{"id":8074,"date":"2010-12-01T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8074"},"modified":"2010-12-01T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T21:54:09","slug":"the-silent-truth-murders-of-women-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8074","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Truth: murders of women in the military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ann Wright for sharing the links to two articles on violence against women in the military.\u00a0 The first article discusses a new documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/the-silent-truth-documentary-aka-the-lavena-johnson-murder-cover-up65249\">The Silent Truth,<\/a> about the murder of LaVena Johnson and subsequent cover up.\u00a0 Ann has worked with the Johnson family to seek the truth and justice and was a consultant on the film.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the violence against women in the military continues at an epidemic rate. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/articles\/2010\/12\/01\/1052001?sac=Home\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Two Fort Bragg soldiers have been charged in connection with the July  death of a fellow paratrooper who was fatally stabbed in the chest  during a deployment to Iraq, the Army announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Spc. Nicholas Bailey, 23, of Pflugerville, Texas, and Spc. Tyler  Cain, 21, of North Carolina, were charged last Wednesday in connection  with the death of Spc. Morganne McBeth, a combat medic who died at Al  Asad Air Base on July 2. Only Bailey is charged with involuntary  manslaughter in McBeth&#8217;s death; Cain is charged with lying to  investigators.<\/p>\n<p>There needs to be a critical examination of the culture of militarism.\u00a0 How does the military as an institution and as a force that has permeated many aspects of our lives create such atrocity producing situations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ann Wright for sharing the links to two articles on violence against women in the military.\u00a0 The first article discusses a new documentary The Silent Truth, about the murder of LaVena Johnson and subsequent cover up.\u00a0 Ann has worked with the Johnson family to seek the truth and justice and was a consultant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Silent Truth: murders of women in the military&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69,2406],"class_list":["post-8074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crime","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8076,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}