it was a crazy one steve warning. by his work. we were good new carpet installed upstairs i was getting ready to babysit my grandson because my daughter had a point so it's a crazy crazy morning and. i thought it was and she forgot she forgot her key or something. in. the soldiers. and. i just. i looked at the emperor and she said you know i want. the door. get here something's wrong with. that i

pull up and there's a. car out there with cover plates on it they said just killed. the full paragraph and you know. the family began hearing details about the circumstances surrounding jessie's death within days of the official announcement they had said that. just. his humvee was struck. broke the checkpoint had a torch just the. tip just. came out of the top of the turret and they think that broken his neck. that was it was a little. guy you know. within an hour of the incident just the arrival of the thirty first combat support hospital in baghdad where he died on the operating

table as doctors tried to save his life jesse was pronounced dead at two thirty five that morning from what doctors at the scene described as. massive blunt abdominal trauma the result of being thrown from the humvee that evening when the doctor examined the results of the post-mortem cat scan he noticed the presence of a bullet in just his back but did not fill out the paperwork to correct the death certificate later in a sworn statement he claimed that jessie did in fact die as a result of a gunshot wound or g.s. w. the final autopsy was performed on jessie's body at dover air force base during the autopsy the doctor discovered that jessie had not died from a trauma but from a penetrating gunshot wound to the back the issued a new certificate of death the media please although jessie's officers in iraq were alerted to the change in status the family continued to believe that their son was killed in a traffic accident. on the day of the funeral jessie's family and friends were

joined by thousands of canton residents who pay their respects for the funeral it was amazing i mean i've never. been to a funeral where even i literally felt the love from the people around the community helped raise have in the community help bury him within hours of learning that jessie died from a bullet lodged in his back army officers in iraq knew that jessie was killed by either us or polish forces who opened fire when the driver of the dump truck failed to slow down or heed warnings to stop as gunfire rang out across the traffic circle the driver was shot and killed sending his truck careening into jesse's humvee. the search conducted on the dump truck revealed that the driver had no weapons officers inferred that the fatal gunshots must have come from us and polish forces firing from positions behind jesse army officers launched an immediate investigation into the friendly fire incident including a ballistics analysis by the u.s.

army criminal investigative laboratory within weeks the laboratory confirmed that the bullets extracted from jesse's back contain sufficient i do. characteristics for comparison purposes and advised of the weapons used by u.s. and polish forces be collected. the final report disclosed that the shots likely came from the sector manned by polish forces the report concluded however that polish forces could not be held accountable for just because the army was concerned about international repercussions in other words because the polish were the third largest contingent in the coalition of the willing the army was hesitant to lay blame and anger their allies as a result of the investigation into the friendly fire. it was in july we buried just. the end the middle of july i got a copy of the casualty. and the cause of penetrating.

that's first i heard that jesse was shot. friendly fire. me early start calling you know the army was shot he said shot him calling us commanders the moisture. state did you know just. confirm anything. like in february i get the autopsy. and it describes all jesse's injury. and under circumstances such as friendly fire that's first we heard currently fire like nine months after i ask they have just hit good soldier people why. how could they make the mistake of not telling us it was shot not no one is a war at all until i read everything over and seen that the weapons were never collected and i knew they. were properly.

in hopes of satisfying peggy's questions investigators held a powerpoint briefing for the family the presentation reiterated the army's position that the shots most likely came from the polish sector but that it remained inconclusive they did not mention that a ballistics test would have conclusively identified which weapon fired the fatal bullet during the same presentation the officers noted that the family had been informed that friendly fire was involved within days of the incident immediately peggy challenge the officers that's wrong. and they could not prove they could not show anywhere in the notes we want to the second investigation prove that to me show me the casualty assistance officer document every thing everything out of the be documented and show me where we were officially told me that.

this was friendly fire they couldn't show it because it never happened. never what i've been trying for a year to find out if indeed my son is shot if they anybody from the army told me he was shot nobody nobody frustrated that the army seemed to be evading the truth he turned to the press. for more than a year and a half the mother of a fallen soldier has been trying to learn the truth about her son's death jessie's mom doesn't know exactly what to believe the family was told he died from internal injuries after a dump truck crashed into his humvee months later she saw all this stuff to get their training gunshot to the back what's more it was friendly fire. in response to the press coverage of peggy's story the secretary of the army directed the inspector general to open a new investigation into jesse's case in the midst of the new investigation one

officer stated that he felt the case had been swept under the rug another officer said he thought investigative officers were walking on eggshells because they felt they couldn't say anything bad about the poles. when the new investigators sought to retrieve the bullets for ballistics testing they made an unnerving discovery that they threw away the bill. they would treat the bullet from just his body there was a bullet he found the bullet would get the army i don't think they do anything out without a novel of regulations they probably can order toilet do in triplicate they have a soldier that opes you know you can sign and i guess that's why i ask questions they give a medal and say was a hero be good enough for which part of the lie am i suppose the believe for everybody there is a next of kin and for every next of kin a telegram from the adjutant general to mrs rebecca the girl the secretary of the army has asked me to express his deep regret that your husband. died in vietnam on

fourteen november one thousand nine hundred sixty five throughout history families have waited anxiously for word about the health and well being of their loved ones on the front lines during world war one the war department introduced a formal policy for informing families when a loved one was lost in battle to my knowledge they received a telegram saying the secretary of war is quite sorry that your loved one has been killed in action just what happened was a soldier in that unit would write to family and say johnny really got shot by. in which case then the family would start asking questions demanded. bester gay sure or an official explanation oh the famous incident carol burnett made to tell polish a movie i think that's what happened there if i recall correctly somebody in the

unit communicated with the family subsequently questions of. similar incidences. where the families did become involved and did ask questions. probably brought this change in. the movie friendly fire. a.b.c. in the fall of one thousand nine hundred seventy nine based on the struggles of iowa farmers peg. the film depicts their fight to obtain information about their son's tragic death in a foxhole in vietnam as a result of shrapnel from a us. friendly fire raise public awareness about the lack of information provided the families of the fallen and likely was the driving force behind the subsequent changes in policy instituted by the department of defense within five years of the film's release the pentagon established

casualty reporting regulations that specifically addressed. for the first time regulations dictated that the families of the inflicting force and stipulated that reports should include circumstantial evidence as long as it's made clear where facts and supposition. was now mandated to notify families of situations where friendly fire was even suspected. the integrity of this new policy would be tested in gulf war one. i know c.n.n. m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth from the might think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media work side by side the joke is actually on we're going to be ok.

and our teen years we have a different. good because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not god. i don't know if. you guys talk to the jokes well handled in the sense that i'm. well. it's technology innovation all the least of melanin still around russia we've got the future covered. well in. the face i think people.

a pleasure to have you with us here today. what is the fate of the house of saud its list of complaints against washington is long and getting longer the saudis are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and one of its only real friends in the region is israel given all this cannot house of saud afford what it calls an independent one paul. by the time the vietnam war ended. the image of the united states military in american society was that the military was rather bumbling incompetent ineffective institution and the officer corps in

the couple of decades following the vietnam war was absolutely committed to. changing that image and restoring the reputation of the american military in the eyes of the american people get really stirred. you know like who cares about the war. this whole. to a great degree that effort achieved success by the time of operation desert storm in early one nine hundred ninety one many commentators had expected the war against iraq to be long drawn out bloody some people said another vietnam. this was a great triumph in the eyes of the officer corps a triumph not simply that. kuwait had been liberated a great triumph in that the reputation carried over from vietnam days was seemingly

buried once and for all. the one blemish on operation desert storm. was that. a substantial proportion of the small number of u.s. casualties suffered occurred as a consequence of friendly fire that's the fundamental lesson of vietnam for much of the military at the time we're talking about and so they were determined to maintain public support to show a new face to show success to show the recall the talk about smart the precipitation and training and professionalization of their force and they were determined to control the facts that fed that story line by any military standard gulf war one was a stunning victory by u.s. and coalition forces in the midst of such overwhelming success however reporters at the pentagon began to hear rumors about friendly fire washington post pentagon.