Feminist Peace Network

Kudos to Gina Gray, former public affairs director at Arlington National Cemetery, for standing up for the right of the families of dead soldiers to allow the media to be present at their funerals.  One of the guiding principles of this blog is that you need to name the problem before you can heal it, and it is urgently important that military deaths be visible.  From Dana Milbank at the Washington Post:

“Six weeks after The Washington Post reported her efforts to restore media coverage of funerals, Gray was demoted. Twelve days ago, the Army fired her.

“Had I not put my foot down, had I just gone along with it and not said regulations were being violated, I’m sure I’d still be there,” said the jobless Gray, who, over lunch yesterday in Crystal City, recounted what she is certain is her retaliatory dismissal. “It’s about doing the right thing.””

I do however have to wonder at this:

“Gray, in tank top, jeans, Ray-Bans over her Army cap and flip-flops revealing pink toenails, struck an unlikely figure for a whistle-blower yesterday as she provided documents detailing her ill-fated and tumultuous few months at Arlington.”

Is there some dress code for whistle-blowers??  Just wondering.

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