People,

Do you know Alyssa's story?

Alyssa Peterson was an an active Mormon (former missionary to Holland) who three years ago was serving in the U.S. military as an arabic language specialist and interrogator in Iraq.

Alyssa was killed in "firearm accident," three years ago in Iraq, according to the U.S. government. Apparently, this was another lie. The truth is that Alyssa committed suicide -- in a battle between her religious conscience and her government.

Unbelievably, her own government was forcing her to torture the people she was interrogating, and it was too much for Alyssa. It seems the only way she could think of to resolve the conflict between what her government was requiring of her, and what her religious conscience required of her, was to kill herself.

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Original story (may require subscription):

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1003345862

Reprint:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1102-05.htm

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Something is very, very wrong.

Is her church wrong? Or is her government wrong?

Which is it?

Church members of good conscience must ask themselves these very uncomfortable questions, and answer them, before Tuesday's election.

On November 7, Americans will decide what's SO WRONG with this picture that a good and decent American like Alyssa felt she had no other choice but to take her own life rather than live with the orders she'd been given to torture people in the name of the United Stated of America.

May we make the right choice this Tuesday ... and may God have mercy on us.

Thank you.

Pass it on.

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