{"id":3749,"date":"2007-10-04T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T17:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:40:03","slug":"soldier-who-told-family-to-investigate-is-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/soldier-who-told-family-to-investigate-is-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier who told family to investigate is shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/untitled1.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/untitled1.bmp\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>David Edwards and Nick Juliano, Raw Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ciara Durkin warned her family before returning to Afghanistan, &#8220;If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What seemed a joke at the time could have been eerily prescient as Durkin, a National Guard specialist, was found dead, shot once in the head, within the fortified walls of Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is releasing no details aside from confirmation that Durkin&#8217;s was a &#8220;non-combat&#8221; death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just want full disclosure,&#8221; Durkin&#8217;s sister Deirdre said on CBS&#8217;s <em>Early Show<\/em> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Now Durkin&#8217;s family is demanding an independent investigation and has enlisted the help of Sens. John Kerry and Edward Kennedy, who represent their home state of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Edwards and Nick Juliano, Raw Story Ciara Durkin warned her family before returning to Afghanistan, &#8220;If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated.&#8221; What seemed a joke at the time could have been eerily prescient as Durkin, a National Guard specialist, was found dead, shot once in the head, within&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3750,"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":[122,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-related-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Soldier who told family to investigate is shot &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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