Sexual Violence In The Military

Dear President Carter and Madames Governors:

Thank you for your authentic integrity and willingness to stand up, be a voice of clarity, affirmation and awakening for those being tortured, abused and ignored both nationally and internationally. Each of you have made remarks and taken public action calling for significant changes that acknowledge the need for human dignity, respect and the preservation of a higher law and order. You have affirmed by your word and actions, just as I have, that you see the bigger vision; that unconstrained abuse and torture is a toxic danger to human rights, community safety, and national as well as global security.

I am writing to request your assistance and to offer my voice to these issues. Military members, whether U.S. citizens or not MUST feel that their lives matter, and that they are safe from torture and abuse from their our own nations sanctioning. But, this is not the case! I know this first hand. I am a torture and rape survivor of the US military, whose assailants were given immunity under 5 US Congressionally passed laws. Four other service women’s cases stand along side of mine as testimony to the dire situation we continue to face. Our plight doesn’t remain in the military. The poison of abuses leaches into society undermining the US military, allowing for torturers and rapists to spread abuse globally. I hope after reading the enclosed summary of research facts and legal precedence information I have provided you will be so moved that you will contact me. I can provide further assistance, including solutions I have gathered that will work. I have worked in this field for over 14 years with knowledge of information that goes back both experientially and academically 25 years.