Warn­ing! Graphic video
This story holds some spe­cial sig­nif­i­cance for me. While I did not know the sol­diers killed or their fam­i­lies I do have a good friend who was also lied to by the mil­i­tary regard­ing his son’s death in Fal­lu­jah. His death was not a friendly fire inci­dent, Alex was killed after run­ning out of ammo despite call­ing for two days for resup­ply. The mil­i­tary shows a huge lack of respect for the fam­i­lies when they lie to cover their own errors, not just lie but shred the evi­dence.

Salon has a pow­er­ful arti­cle up regard­ing one such inci­dent and the stress it causes all the sol­diers involved.

Last month, Salon pub­lished a story report­ing that U.S. Army Pfc. Albert Nel­son and Pfc. Roger Suarez were killed by U.S. tank fire in Ramadi, Iraq, in late 2006, in an inci­dent par­tially cap­tured on video, but that an Army inves­ti­ga­tion instead blamed their deaths on enemy action. Now Salon has learned that doc­u­ments relat­ing to the two men were shred­ded hours after the story was published.

This video con­tains graphic video and coarse lan­guage. It was very hard for me to watch because I know that my son lived this life almost daily in Iraq… hear­ing the adren­a­lin in the sol­diers’ voices is very painful. Please note their is a mor­tally wounded sol­dier strain­ing in this video, you may not want to watch.