Wednesday, August 15, 2007

LaVena Johnson's father to speak at Veterans for Peace national convention.


From LaVena Johnson website:


As part of its 22nd annual national convention taking place in St. Louis, Veterans for Peace will hold a press conference on sexual assault in the military on Friday, August 17, 12:30 - 1:45 pm Central. The event will be held outside the Robert A. Young Federal Building, 1222 Spruce Street. Among the participants will be Dr. John Johnson, father of PFC LaVena Johnson, the area soldier who died under clouded circumstances in Iraq two years ago. Other scheduled participants include:

Sara Rich, mother of Suzanne Swift, victim of rape while in the US military in Iraq

Maricella Guzman, victim of sexual assault while in the US military

Michael McPherson, Executive Director of Veterans for Peace and veteran of the US Army and Gulf War I

Sharon Kufeldt, Veteran of Vietnam War and Vice-President of Veterans for Peace

Ellen Barfield, served in Korea and former Vice-President of Veterans for Peace

Ann Wright, Colonel, Retired, US Army Reserves

1 comment:

airJackie said...

I hope the Johnson family gets the Vets behind them as the Tillman family has done. Just for answers to these murders. I just keep thinking about the movie Courage Under Fire and show those murders effected the soldiers that knew the truth.