{"id":4619,"date":"2008-06-20T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4619"},"modified":"2008-06-20T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T17:19:03","slug":"alyssa-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/06\/alyssa-peterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"

I kinda vaguely remember hearing about that LDS woman who was killed in Iraq awhile back.<\/p>\n

From the Jan 04 Ensign: “The most recent casualty was United States Army Specialist Alyssa R. Peterson. She was killed in Tel Afar, Iraq, in September 2003 as a result of a noncombat weapons discharge. A member of the Cherry Hill Ward, Flagstaff Arizona Stake, Sister Peterson was in Iraq serving as an Arabic-speaking intelligence specialist assigned to the U.S. Army\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 311th Military Intelligence Battalion, 101st Airborne Division. Sister Peterson, 27, served a full-time mission to the Netherlands.” <\/p>\n

Alyssa Peterson’s story is included in Boyd Peterson’s “Mormonism and Torture: Paradoxes and First Principles” in the April 2008 Sunstone<\/a>, where I learned this:<\/p>\n

An NPR reporter used a Freedom of Information Act request to find out that she died of a self-inflicted wound. She witnessed interrogation techniques for only two days before refusing to participate any longer. She was re-assigned and sent to suicide prevention training, which, according to the note pinned to her body, taught her how to kill herself.<\/p>\n

This is probably the point in the post where I should decry torture or compare George W. Bush to a chimpanzee or tell you to vote for Obama. But I’m not going to do that (and I’m going to request that you not do that in the comments, either). <\/p>\n

I just don’t want Alyssa’s story to be unknown or forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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