[fortress]

“When you take into consideration what’s been going on at (Abu Ghraib) prison in Iraq, it’s totally ridiculous that we should stress and make so much emphasis on something of that nature when they’re doing these terrible things to our own soldiers,” Norman Walters said.

Enough said and you are so right Mr Walters

[LayoutGuru2]

Fortress, I heard this on the radio on the way home from work tonight. Thanks for posting this. Bump!!!

[Lijahsbubbe]

Empty gun magazines were found near where Walters was captured, suggesting he fired until ammunition ran out. Before his capture, he was shot in the leg and stabbed three times in the abdomen with a bayonet

The fight that this brave man put up, and the pain and brutality he endured. Truly a hero.

[Squantos]

To Sgt. Donald Walters , surviving family and friends go my prayers.......

[jaykay]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8779066.htm?1c - More than a year after the March 23, 2003, ambush, the military released new details to the family of Sgt. Donald Walters of Salem, Ore.

The Pentagon investigated his death after his mother filed Freedom of Information requests, believing the Army had not given her son credit for actions first attributed to Lynch, such as fighting until his ammunition had run out.

Walters "was held separately from his fellow soldiers and killed while in custody," according to a news release from the National Guard.

"He was executed - shot twice in the back," Guard spokesman Maj. Arnold Strong said in a telephone interview Thursday. "An Iraqi ambulance driver witnessed six fedayeen rebels standing outside a building guarding him while he was still alive. That same witness evacuated his dead body to a hospital."

Defense investigators confirmed the account by matching Walters' DNA to blood splatter on the wall where he was executed, Strong said. He died from two gunshot wounds to the back, fired from more than 20 feet away, according to Strong's account of the investigation findings.


CNN - Pentagon officials announced the details Thursday. Walters' status was changed by the military earlier this month from Killed in Action to POW - Murdered.

His family was notified of the change this week, military officials said.

The investigation is one of several military investigations into possible war crimes committed by Iraqis or other anti-American fighters during major combat actions.

Ten ongoing criminal investigations are connected to other soldiers killed in the 507th ambush. Walters' investigation is the first to be near completion.

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A wounded POW executed.
Shot in the back.
ScamNasty Int. Anything? - "An American? Not interested."
ICRC ANything? - "We're busy investigating panty on head war crimes"
Al Jazeera. Anything? - "We regret that we were unable to broadcast the great event."

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Woe be any media slime or other scum who in my presence starts a rant about Americans mistreating prisoners. They will think a verbal volcano has erupted onto the arses.

[Imal]

This is nothing. At least they didn't put panties on his head.

[Maigrey]

“This was an act of barbarism, an act of evil and inhumanity that cannot be justified even in war. I know that civilized people around the world will recoil when they learn of this atrocity.”

No they won't, because it won't be published, because the media doesn't care. It doesn't fit their agenda.

[Moose4]

I know that civilized people around the world will recoil when they learn of this atrocity.

From your mouth to God's ear...but I doubt it. We can't have anything that would move Abu Ghraib prisoner pr0n off the front page.

}:-)4

[wallcrawlr]

There out to be some sort of FreeRepublic medal we could bestow on some of these brave soldiers of exceptional qualities. Some way Fr could forever recognize their service/sacrifice to our country.

[exit82]

Another example of Saddam's barbarism, which will not be noted by the media.

Then again, another person executed a prisoner of war, who was wounded.

His name was John Kerry.

It is time for Sgt. Walters to recieve the Congressional Medal of Honor. And to retrieve the politically correct Silver Star given to Jessica Lynch, who never fired her weapon.

[Flint]

"according to the Geneva Convention.”

I will be so happy when I no longer hear that phrase associated with this war. When are people going to start understanding that it has nothing to do with what is going on in Iraq or any other part of that world.

[RetiredArmy]

Nope. No story here. Press will ignore it. Means that the enemy is actually mean and cruel. Nope. Nothing to gain here, can't put any blame on Bush.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

When we capture his murderers, I sure hope we don't humiliate them by putting women's panties on their heads.

[RottiBiz]

R.I.P. Sgt. Donald Walters.

Prayers for his family and loved ones.

[nonliberal]

They killed him, but they kept the pretty white girl around to have some fun with.

Islam is a Satanic death cult.

[cake_crumb]

"I want to express my anger and absolute disgust who flouted every rule of international law, every religious and moral commandment, and every principle of common decency in committing such an act against a helpless prisoner of war....I know that civilized people around the world will recoil when they learn of this atrocity."

Sadly, only conservatives in the US and Canada, and a few in Britain.

The rest will ignore it unless they can somehow twist it to damage the Bush administration and hamper the efforts of our troops fighting the war on terrorism.

[OregonRepublican]

Walters I guess killed like 20 iraqis before he died. He was in the same group as Lynch. Hes the real hero, I think hes the reason Lynch is alive. What he did he deserves a purple heart.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[happygrl]

U.S. Army Sgt. Donald Walters

I pray we are worthy of such men as this.

I salute this man and his family and the sacrifice they have made for ME.