Soldier warned family: Investigate if I die and she died !

[tailwind]

October 4, 2007

Ciara Durkin warned her family before returning to Afghanistan, "If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated."

What seemed a joke at the time could have been eerily prescient as Durkin, a National Guard specialist, was found dead, shot once in the head, within the fortified walls of Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is releasing no details aside from confirmation that Durkin's was a "non-combat" death.

"She was in the finance unit and she said, 'I discovered some things I don’t like and I made some enemies because of it.' Then she said, in her light-hearted way, 'If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated,'" Durkin's older sister, Fiona Canavan, told The Patriot Ledger. "But at the time we thought it was said more as a joke."

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[tuckessee]

1. She should've elaborated more.

She's dead & all we have is a cryptic remark so ambiguous that her sister thought it was in jest.

Lesson to all: It's better to spill the beans when faced with something like Durkin may have faced. Spill them loudly, often and on the record.

It's the only protection.