If They Could Keep The ROHNA Deaths "Secret" For 50 Years...

[arwalden]

... what makes anyone think that our government is being truthful about the number of deaths in Iraq???


http://www.rohna.org/

What is the Rohna website all about? First a little background.

On November 26, 1943, during WWII, one thousand, one hundred and thirty eight men perished when a British troopship, the HMT Rohna, was attacked from the air and destroyed in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Algeria. Two important but virtually unknown historical events occurred at that time.

It was the first successful "hit" of a merchant vessel at-sea carrying US troops by a German remote-controlled, rocket-boosted bomb, thus giving birth to the "Missile Age", and it resulted in the greatest loss of troops (1015) at sea in U.S. history. Combined with the loss of ship's crew and officers, and three Red Cross workers, more lives were lost then on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.

The "hit" was so devastating that the U.S. Government placed a veil of secrecy upon it. The events which followed were so shameful that the secrecy continued for decades until recently, when documents were grudgingly released under pressure of the Freedom of Information Act. The government still does not acknowledge this tragedy, thus most families of the casualties still do not know the fate of their loved ones.

In 1995, over fifty years later, a group of survivors, next-of-kin and rescuers, informally came together for the sole purpose of enabling the creation and dedication of a Rohna Memorial.

<SNIP> Continued at... http://www.rohna.org/

[DUreader]

1. Conspiracies don't happen

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[DUreader]

2. Maybe the day crew will be more interested

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[gratuitous]

3. This is something that concerns me

Certainly we hear some reports from Iraq and Afghanistan about deaths and battles and such. But with the near total news blackout (the media report only what the Defense Dept. deigns to tell them), there could be quite a bit more going on than we're ever privy to.

If a platoon of guys gets it, and one's from New York, another's from Tennessee, a third's from Washington and a fourth from Minnesota, what are the odds that the families of these four war dead will contact one another? Each family sees a report of one dead in a battle near Tikrit or some such place, each one of them thinks "Yeah, that must be where Ronny (or Joe or Stan) got it," and none of them suspect that there were three more dead. Multiply that incidence by seven a week, and that number of 340 dead, while appalling, may be a severe undercount. And who's going to know?