Summary
Alyssa Peterson was a returned Mormon missionary when she joined the Army in 2001. After earning a psychology degree from Northern Arizona University on a military scholarship, she went to the military's Defense Language Institute. She was reported to have had a unique ability to learn foreign languages, having mastered Dutch before she even left on her mission to the Netherlands. She quickly learned Arabic and was then sent to Iraq to conduct interrogations and translate enemy documents, serving with a military intelligence unit. Friends, family and fellow soldiers described her as "genuine, sincere and just plain sweet."
Peterson was assigned to the prison at Tal-Afar in northwestern Iraq. Within a few weeks, on Sept. 15, 2003, she died from "non- hostile weapons discharge," according to Army records. Peterson became just the third woman soldier to be killed in Iraq. Her father told co-workers the day before she died that he had a premonition she was in trouble. But there is more to the story than the Army has revealed.See the full content of this document
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Has Military Lost Its Humanity?
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