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LaVena, continued

By Phil Barron ⋅ April 22, 2008 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Post a comment

See the note.

Note: This information is now outdated, as the name-gathering phase of the LaVena Johnson petition came to a close on Saturday, May 24. More information upstream, and at the LaVena site.

On last week Friday, April 18, I closed out the LaVena Johnson petition - an appeal to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees to demand a re-investigation of the suspicious death of the young soldier from Florissant, Missouri. I had announced the end of the name-gathering phase of the petition some days in advance, and so replaced the active page with a placeholder around 11:30 pm that Friday night.

About twenty-four hours later, late Saturday night, I reactivated that webpage.

I also added audio clips of the KKFI interview of LaVena’s father, Dr. John Johnson, which can also be accessed here. The LaVena petition is again open for signatures and comments, and will be for an undetermined period. I made an announcement to that effect that evening on the official LaVena site.

I reopened the petition at the request of Dr. Johnson, and was more than happy to do so. While more signatures is always better than fewer, this is not solely a matter of numbers; Dr. Johnson is grateful indeed to the twelve thousand people who have signed the form and expressed their support and concern. It is my hope - and his, I believe - that the petition may serve well for a while longer as a living document, a kind of memorial.

The petition does not exist for its own sake, however; the goal is a delivered document, and that hasn’t changed. As I mentioned in previous posts, I will format and prepare the petition and make arrangements for its delivery to Congress, continuing to add names and comments as they appear on the webpage. When a definite deadline for signatures has been determined, I’ll announce it here, at the LaVena site, and elsewhere.

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