Two interesting points about this story.
1. It appears we were lied to about Jessica Lynch - big surprise there. This soldier appears to be the hero who shot all his bullets trying to defend everyone.
2. The Pentagon apparently refused to investigate this soldier's death until mom get involved and forced them to. If DOD had its druthers, the parents would have been left with a phony story about what happened to their now-deceased son. Lovely.
Washington Post:
A soldier in the same ambush as former POW Jessica Lynch was not killed in action but captured by Iraqi fighters and then executed, officials said.
The family of Sgt. Donald Walters, 33, of Salem -- which had pressed officials for an investigation of his death -- learned the new information from the Oregon National Guard. Guard officials released the details to the public Thursday, more than a year after the March 23, 2003, ambush....
The Pentagon investigated Walters's death after his mother, Arlene, filed Freedom of Information requests. She believed the Army had not given her son credit for actions first attributed to Lynch, such as fighting until his ammunition ran out....
Walters's fate drew attention because the details of his actions remarkably resemble a story circulated in The Washington Post and other news accounts media, based on anonymous sources, describing how Lynch had fought until her ammunition ran out.
After her rescue, Lynch, of Palestine, W.Va., said she did not fire a shot. Her injuries resulted from a Humvee crash during the firefight in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah, just days into the war.
Like Lynch, Donald Walters had blond hair. His family and others have said that early reports depicting a blond soldier bravely fighting off Iraqis may have been mistakenly attributed to Lynch, possibly because of an erroneous translation of Iraqi radio transmissions.
