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U.S. Military Is Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers' 'Suicides'

By Col. Ann Wright, Truthdig. Posted September 10, 2008.


Our soldiers' families deserve better than that.

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Col. Ann Wright is a retired Army Reserve colonel and a 29-year veteran of the Army and Army Reserves. She was also a diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the Department of State on March 19, 2003, in opposition to the Iraq war. She is the co-author of "Dissent: Voices of Conscience").

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