After Soldier's Death a Chinatown Family Seeks Answers

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"But the official also revealed, the Chens said, that Private Chen had been subjected to physical abuse and ethnic slurs by superiors, who one night dragged him out of bed and across the floor when he failed to turn off a water heater after showering.

Since then, the military has given little information about its investigation to the Chens, immigrants who speak no English.

And though military officials have reassured the Chens that a thorough investigation is being conducted, their grief is laced with suspicion, shared by their supporters in the local Chinese community, that they will never learn the truth.

For decades, Asian-Americans have had an uneasy relationship with the military, enlisting at lower rates than other ethnic groups."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/nyregion/after-soldiers-death-a-chinatown-family-seeks-answers.html?scp=1&sq=danny%20chen&st=cse


But here's the most telling piece of information of all:

"Several members of his battalion did not reply to e-mails seeking comment, and none of them have reached out to his family."

Not a SINGLE ONE of his "comrades" in arms have reached out to the family, nor would they comment. That sounds like the silence of the guilty to me.

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1. Mind if I bump this for more exposure?

The time to get out of endless war was yesterday.