Father of dead soldier claims Army coverup

[NNN0LHI]

Posting here because it is too late for LBN.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030807-043512-3755r

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The father of a soldier who died of pneumonia this spring said Thursday the Army has excluded her death from its investigation of deadly pneumonia because it wants to cover up vaccine side effects.

"The government is covering this up and it is a dog-gone shame," said Moses Lacy, whose daughter, Army Spc. Rachael Lacy, died April 4 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., after getting pneumonia.

Lacy said his daughter "was a healthy young woman" but got ill within days of getting anthrax and smallpox vaccinations on March 2 in preparation for deployment to the Persian Gulf. She was too ill to ever be deployed.

The Army said 100 soldiers have gotten pneumonia in Iraq and southwestern Asia, two of those have died and another 13 have had to be put on respirators.

"The common denominator is smallpox and anthrax vaccinations," Moses Lacy said in a telephone interview from his home in Lynwood, Ill. "These young people have given their lives to the military and they are getting a raw deal. The Department of Defense is closing their eyes."

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[zekeson]

1. kick

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[chimpymustgo]

2. Waiting to see this story on Faux News. Or any of them.

It is just heartbreaking.

[Rose Siding]

3. One sailor in CA (?) refused the shots

He's married and wants kids and had read up on the risks. They put him in jail, busted his rank- He'd already served *five* years. Put in 5 years, made a sane choice, Lock him up!

It really seems logical that the battery of vaccines together should be one of the first things to check out. Whether there's a reaction or just a massive effect on the immune system, to not hear anything about it as a possibility smacks of cover up.

[okieinpain]

4. I posted this earlier, this another story on a soldier that died

he told his father he was on a "haul" mission in iraq, but could not tell him what he was hauling.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=153185&mesg_id=153185

[IndianaGreen]

5. So what else is new?

When are the flag waivers going to learn that soldiers are nothing but props for politicians, and that those same politicians will protect the pharmaceuticals responsible for the unsafe vaccines the soldiers are given.

I am so tired of this shit! I was one of those fortunate enough to read the classified UK Ministry of Defence papers on the probable cause of Gulf War syndrome that were accidentally posted on an unclassified Pentagon website back in 1991, or thereabouts. The British clearly were hot pursuing leads that the cause for the illnesses were possibly due to the cocktail of vaccines given to the soldiers, coupled with the chemicals their uniforms were treated with to ward off desert pests.

Apparently it is the combination, the "cocktail" of vaccines, that is responsible for somehow damaging the immune system of otherwise healthy individuals.

This is a replay of the same shit!

BTW, that stuff that I read was on the internet for about a day before DOD yanked it off saying it was classified. This is another example of security being invoked to cover up things that the public has a legitimate right to know. Protect the corporations is more important than protecting the troops. You won't hear Clear Channels saying that at one of their "Support the Troops" rallies.