Newspaper Carries Word of Another Mysterious U.S. Soldier Death in Iraq

[Newsjock]

Source: Editor & Publisher

By Greg Mitchell

... Word emerged yesterday of another mysterious, non-hostile fatality. His name is Jeremiah Hughes. The army is investigating and may never release its findings.

But the final "mood" icon on his MySpace page, I discovered today, was a frown -- with the word: "Crushed."

Army Spc. Jeremiah Hughes, 26, left for Iraq in December with the Stryker brigade from Hawaii -- three years after a previous tour. An article in the Honolulu Advertiser yesterday quotes an entry from his MySpace page just before he was deployed: "I'm gonna hate being away from my wife for over a year. And I'm gonna hate not being able to spend time with her, or my friends, or my dogs. I'm really gonna dislike not being able to drink every once in a while when I get irritated by the things around me. And then of course, I can't say that I'm gonna be too fond of people shooting at me again, or trying to blow me up again, or any of that stupid stuff."

The Pentagon announced that he died Wednesday in Balad, Iraq, "from injuries sustained in a noncombat incident in Abu Ghraib." His wife survives him.

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[wildbilln864]

1. k&r!

:banghead:

[alstephenson]

2. WTF?

[donkeyotay]

3. I remember this same reporter dug up the cause of Alyssa Peterson's death

"Alyssa Peterson (which I recently highlighted here) who took her life after refusing to engage in torture interrogations."

I guess she didn't get the memo that the orders to torture came all the way from the top...Or, does that make it worse? Either way, there she was, serving her country, and struggling to make sense of the senseless - assuming that she was a suicide and not a victim. She had told her family she was afraid of the contractors there.