Emile Meylan's daughter, Spc. Mariela Mason, was attacked in Kuwait on Dec. 18th while changing a tire on her truck with three other soldiers. A truck driver for Fort Hood's 96th Transportation Company, Mason remains in a coma after being transported to hospitals in Kuwait, Germany, and finally Washington, DC. Two of the other soldiers died and the last has broken legs and lost all the skin on his back, and is in a special hospital in Texas. Meylan, from Livermore, CA, submitted his account to Indybay: "As a parent, I would like other parents to know this, before they even consider to send their kids to this place. But, how do [you] let other people know this, when your own government denounces pacifists as anti-patriotic?" Read more | Antiwar news