by DAVID STOUT / NYTimes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 — “Engaging in the banalities of life has become a death-defying act,” the seven soldiers wrote of the war they had seen in Iraq.
They were referring to the ordeals of Iraqi citizens, trying to go about their lives with death and suffering all around them. But sadly, although they did not know it at the time, they might almost have been referring to themselves.
Two of the soldiers who wrote of their pessimism about the war in an Op-Ed article that appeared in The New York Times on Aug. 19 were killed in Baghdad on Monday. They were not killed in combat, nor on a daring mission. They died when the five-ton cargo truck in which they were riding overturned.
The victims, Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26, and Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, were among the authors of “The War as We Saw It,” in which they expressed doubts about reports of progress.
Full article here.
I posted about their op-ed a little while ago.
Unfortunately, the link to the full text of their op-ed on the NYTimes site is one that requires a suubscription to the NYTimes. However, I was able to locate a copy of the full text of their op-ed on TruthOut.org - I think it's worth reading what the troops in the field are thinking.
Sgt. Omar Mora
It is sad that two more soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq. Sadder still that their voices, so clear such a short time ago, have now been silenced.
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