Mother Wants Explanation for Son's Death in Iraq (NYT Ed Mora)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: WOAI.Com

TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) - The mother of a soldier who died in a Baghdad vehicle accident weeks after co-writing a New York Times op-ed piece -- wants the Army to explain his death.

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Capetillo said that in the weeks since writing the piece with six other active duty soldiers, Mora had seemed depressed and withdrawn.

Mora and co-authors Sergeant Yance Gray of Ismay, Montana, died in the vehicle accident -- along with five other U.S. soldiers and two detainees.

The single-vehicle accident also wounded eleven other soldiers and one detainee.





Read more: http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=9fb98653-abb4-4618-860a-3b741782808a

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BTW this had to be an armored truck of some type I would think, not a Humvee since it was holding 19 people if I'm doing the math right.

[TwilightGardener]

1. There were a lot of survivors--should be pretty easy to get to the bottom of this.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Good luck on that. It'll be months or years before they admit it was an

IED. The problem was that it happened at the same time as the "September Report".

[kimmylavin]

3. Is she a Republican?

A Republican donor?
If not, there's no hope for an explanation.

[Roy]

7. A republican would mostl ikely be saying, their only regret is.....

they only had one son to give for the enrichment of Bush and buddies.

Then the son would be denounced as a traitor for speaking out.

[Cha]

4. Recommended!!

Let's hope it's not as nebulous as Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan.

[lyonn]

5. I just ripped off a big piece of tinfoil!

This is scary.

[Ian David]

6. The explanation is that he was Tilmanned, and when Bush asks, "How's your boy," it's a THREAT. n/t

[RamboLiberal]

8. More from his mother

Despite her son's patriotism, Capetillo said Mora seemed to grow disturbed by the poverty and pain afflicting the children in Iraq. He often asked his family to send cookies and candies for the children, said his mother, a beautician.

In April, Mora came home on a two-week leave. His ears were injured by a roadside bomb and a friend lost his arm. In August, another friend died in Mora's arms.

That death seemed to leave a grim imprint, Capetillo said.

On Friday, an unusually subdued Mora called his mother, and the two spoke for what would be the last time.

"He was so quiet, as if he did not want anyone to hear him," said Capetillo, as family and friends encircled her in her kitchen.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003638829

It is old and worn, but for months a yellow ribbon served as a sign of hope, that one day Sgt. Omar Mora would be home.

"He was coming home in November. He was coming home in November,” his mother Olga Capetillo said.

Mora, 28, died Monday. He was one of seven American troops killed near Baghdad in vehicle rollover accident.

It was his second tour of duty.

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou070911_tj_tcsoldier.c4dda8ba.html

These two sound like such good and caring young men! Another loss for this country and their families.