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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Petition

Hello!
I've started the petition "President Obama and the Department of Defense: Properly investigate military non-combat deaths" and need your help to get it off the ground.
Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link:
http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-and-the-department-of-defense-properly-investigate-military-non-combat-deaths
Here's why it's important:
Military members' non-combat deaths are not being properly investigated and this is an unacceptable insult to their national service and memories.

You can sign my petition by clicking here.
Thanks!

Historical Fact

"Of the more than 274,000 officers and men who served in the army during the Spanish-American War and the period of demobilization, 5,462 died in the various theaters of operation and in camps in the a U.S. Only 379 of the deaths were battle casualties, the remainder being attributed to disease and other causes."

Source: Encyclopedia of American History by Richard Morris

In 1898, thousands of soldiers got food poisoning from meat packed by Armour and Company and sold to the Army. There are no figures on how many of the five thousand noncombat deaths were caused by this.

The Oxford Companion to American Military History estimates that between 2 percent and 25 percent of the casualties in America's wars are attributable to friendly fire.