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  • Dead [lesbian] Soldier Forewarned Family Of Her Death

    10/04/2007 6:27:03 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 31 replies · 844+ views
    cbs ^ | Oct 4, 2007 5:19 am US/Pacific
    (CBS) QUINCY, Mass. A soldier killed in Afghanistan last week told her family they should press for answers if anything happened to her, reports CBS station WBZ-TV in Boston. Spc. Ciara Durkin, 30, of Quincy, Mass., was shot in the head last week outside a chapel near her office at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense reported Durkin was not killed in action. Durkin's sister, Fiona Canavan, told the Patriot Ledger on Wednesday that when her sister was home three weeks ago, she told her about something she had come across that raised some concern with her. "She...
  • N.Y. Times to apologize for photo, video of soldier

    02/01/2007 9:15:28 AM PST · by PurpleMan · 39 replies · 1,677+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Feb. 1, 2007, | MICHAEL HEDGES
    WASHINGTON — The New York Times will express regret for hurting the feelings of the family of a Texas soldier after publishing a photograph and a video showing him as he lay dying in Baghdad. The letter is part of an agreement reached Wednesday between the Army and the Times to resolve a controversy about the use of images of Staff Sgt. Hector Leija without his consent.