Parents of soldier Army says was murdered want to know why abuse wasn't taken more seriously

[lastliberalintexas]

Incredibly sad story. We must really be low on bodies if we are keeping people like Norris in Iraq. But I can't say I am surprised that the military either didn't know how or didn't care to deal with domestic abuse. :(


Jerry and Jane Block repeat it over and over: The U.S. Army failed their daughter.

After Kamisha Block, 20, of Vidor died last August in Iraq, her family was told she was a victim of friendly fire, shot in the chest in a non-combat incident.

A few days after the Army notified the family, they told the Blocks some of the truth - Spc. Block had been murdered.

It took the family another six months to find out the details of her slaying, including the real name of the man who shot her.

"It's been hard to move on, because we feel justice has not been done. They failed her, and they certainly haven't treated us fairly," Jane Block said from her Vidor home.
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http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19785835&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6

[NC_Nurse]

1. My God.

So much for "Support the Troops". We've had tons of murders and suicides in NC
with soldiers returning from Iraq with not enough counseling resources, etc.

It's amazing to hear it's happening over there too. You'd think they couldn't ignore it
in the active troops there. Pathetic.

[Rick Myers]

2. Every time I see a support the troops Chinese magnet, I vomit!!!

Our military is a force to defend America, not to beat down a soverign nation!!!

[NC_Nurse]

3. Me too. It's terrible. The whole damn thing.

[xchrom]

4. i find this an interesting and sad metaphor for our whole

recent disastrous military experience in the last few years.