{"id":459,"date":"2008-07-28T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/from-color-of-change"},"modified":"2008-07-28T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T21:17:00","slug":"from-color-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/from-color-of-change","title":{"rendered":"From Color of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read. Weep. Do something!<\/p>\n<p>Dear Readers:<\/p>\n<p>LaVena Johnson was 19 years old, serving in Iraq as a private in the<br \/>Army, when she was raped, murdered, and her body was burned&#8211;by someone<br \/>from her own military base. Despite overwhelming physical evidence,<br \/>the Army called it a suicide and closed the case.[1]<\/p>\n<p>For three years, LaVena&#8217;s parents have been fighting for answers. At<br \/>almost every turn, they&#8217;ve been met with closed doors or lies. But<br \/>together we can help achieve justice for LaVena and other families who<br \/>have suffered similar tragedies.[2]<\/p>\n<p>Will you join me in standing with the Johnsons and calling on Henry<br \/>Waxman, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, to investigate the<br \/>Army&#8217;s cover-up of Lavena&#8217;s death? And ask your friends and family to<br \/>do the same?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorofchange.org\/lavena\/?id=1649-602884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.colorofchange.org\/lavena\/?id=1649-602884<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;The cover-up of a soldier&#8217;s death?&#8221; LavenaJohnson.com, March 6, 2007<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenajohnson.com\/2007\/03\/cover-up-of-soldiers-death.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.lavenajohnson.com\/2007\/03\/cover-up-of-soldiers-death.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;Is There an Army Cover Up of Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers?&#8221; CommonDreams.org, April 28, 2008<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/archive\/2008\/04\/28\/8564\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/archive\/2008\/04\/28\/8564\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read. Weep. Do something! Dear Readers: LaVena Johnson was 19 years old, serving in Iraq as a private in theArmy, when she was raped, murdered, and her body was burned&#8211;by someonefrom her own military base. Despite overwhelming physical evidence,the Army called it a suicide and closed the case.[1] For three years, LaVena&#8217;s parents have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[826,827],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-is-it-murder","tag-lavena-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}