Another Female Soldier Dead in Iraq -- Melissa Valles

Melissa Valles, 26, Army.

That's all the information I've seen about her. Interesting that I've not seen this mentioned. Do you think someone might not think it's a great idea to say that another woman has been killed.

I keep the names on a poster board (and heading for 2 poster boards) for our peace group and saw this on the Newshour. Then I confirmed it on the AP casualty list:

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/external/fmmac2.mm.ap.org/war2/lastname.php?LastName=&form2=Search

to get home! Bush won't allow abortions so they get to go home. The Army ishelping create all the illegitimate children just to get out of Bush's army.

"comfort women"?

army men to do them instead they just want to go home. Also, Iraq said Saddam did not allow prostitution and now it is back. that saddam was a total tyrannt I tell you.

She died as a result of non-combat injuries. The incident is under investigation.

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Details.aspx

Posted on Fri, Jul. 11, 2003

Fort Carson servicewoman fatally wounded in Iraq
Associated Press

EAGLE PASS, Texas - An Army sergeant from Eagle Pass and based at Fort Carson, Colo., has died from a gunshot wound in Iraq, military officials said Friday. She is the second U.S. servicewoman to die in the war.

Sgt. Melissa Valles, 26, died Wednesday from non-combat injuries in Balad, according to the Defense Department. The accident was under investigation and details were not released.

"Right now, we don't have that much information," said her sister, Maribel Valles, 24, of San Antonio. "All we know is that she passed away. We don't know what happened."

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/6284198.htm

One of the people they followed was an Army doctor. She treated a female patient with non-combat injuries who ended up dying. Of course they weren't able to give any details, but that must have been her. Very sad.

That's the question that Common Dreams asked when it posted this article:

Published on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 by the Portland Press Herald (Maine)
Another Scenario Emerges in Death of Army Reservist
by Jen Fish

Time magazine has outlined a new scenario for the death this month in Iraq of an Army reservist from Kennebunk, adding more confusion as the family awaits the results of an official investigation.

First Sgt. Christopher Coffin, 51, became the fifth soldier with Maine ties to die in Iraq after his vehicle ran into a ditch on July 1. He was a member of the 352nd Civil Affairs Command assisting convoys traveling between Baghdad and Kuwait.

The details of Coffin's death have been mired in confusion since the day it was announced by the military.

Initially, a press release from Coffin's unit stated he died after his vehicle swerved to avoid a civilian vehicle.

But a report from the U.S. Central Command issued a day before said a member of Coffin's unit was killed July 1 when his convoy was hit by "an improvised explosive device

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"The case raises a very troubling question, which is, are combat deaths being disguised as accidents . . . so it would appear less harm is being caused by the Iraqi resistance than is the case?" asked Rep. Tom Allen, D-Maine.


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0715-03.htm