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Soldiers with Flu-Like symptoms Dying ’Mysteriously’

by Open-Publishing - Saturday 19 February 2005
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The mysterious death of a third soldier with North Carolina ties is raising questions. All three died from flu-like symptoms after returning from overseas deployments, according to a report by affiliate station WRAL.

Sgt. Clay Garton was a flight medic at Fort Bragg. He spent 16 months in Iraq and returned home in July. Then, he got sick.

His family said he had symptoms like the flu. He fought it for three weeks, but his fever soared to 106 degrees. The day after Christmas, he died.

"They came out in five minutes and said, ’He’s gone,’" said Duane Garton, Clay’s father.

According to a preliminary autopsy report, Garton’s liver and spleen were swollen. His wife said doctors told her he died from infection.

It is the third recent example of soldiers dying after exhibiting flu-like symptoms. Capt. Gilbert Munoz was a special forces soldier at Fort Bragg who was deployed to the Middle East. After he got back, he died from a bacterial infection.

Sgt. Christopher Rogers was a reservist from Raleigh. He went to Afghanistan. After he came home, his temperature hit 109 degrees. His widow, Windy Rogers, wonders whether he had what Munoz had.

"Chris was admitted with flu-like symptoms. Whatever it was, it shut all of his organs down — shut them all down — and I want to know what happened," she said.

Garton’s family has questions, too. His wife said while Garton was in Iraq, he treated someone exposed to depleted uranium. Garton’s father wonders if that had something to do with his death.

"He went through 16 months of hell and he came back and they didn’t do nothing for him," he said.

WRAL called Fort Bragg, the Department of the Army and some congressional offices.

At this point, it does not appear that anyone is investigating the deaths or trying to determine if there is a common cause.

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Forum posts

  • Might be DU: but then everybody over there is getting bombarded by the stuff. And typically DU would take more time. Cancerous growths, etc. Just wait another 20 years, when we have a few thousand dropping like flys, then maybe the administation will admit to something...then again maybe not.

  • It’s not flu it’s DU. Unfortunately the used it in Yugoslawia, too. The civilian population is kept in
    the dark. Moreover on the Big Island of Hawaii corrupt congressmen let the military use the same
    kind of ammunition.

    • DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS - lies waste to wherever it is used and passes its lethal radiation to whoever handles it or comes in contact with the radiation it leaves behind - 150, 000 US soldiers from the first gulf war are now suspected of having radiation-related illnesses - and are on welfare. typical symptoms - organ failure, immune system collapse, cancers, deformed, and infected offspring. Thousands of Iraqi’s are affected - including new-born children who have hideous deformities previously unseen before the war.

      The pentagon - and the media - of course refuse to acknowledge the dangers.

      It is used to provide lethal penetration of munitions - using spent radioactive materials from the waste cycle of the nuclear industry.

      See the documentary "The Doctor, The Depleted Uranium and The Dying Children" for on-the-spot proof of the devastation being reaped, including interviews with british and US soldiers who have been given cancers.

  • Bring all these BRAVE soldiers home....before it is too late and they all suffer and/ or die!!!!

  • Boo hoo boo hoo....these little killers deserve what they will all get, and their stupid family members who encouraged them to go kill some innocent Iraqis for sport can watch their military men come home in body bags or worse and its just karma for all.

    • I am so ashamed of a people who lie,cheat,kill,torture and then cry for mercy when karma finally comes due. Gutless wonders just like their leader-a prissy rich boy who seems to know nothing about life or justice or freedom. Where are the mothers of all these soldiers?

    • The mothers are wrapped up in the flag like everyone else. I think a lot has to do with the intrinisic hate we have for people not of our tribe.

      Actually, I wouldn’t refer to the leadership as not knowing about life or justice or freedom. On the contrary, I would say that they are providing a good life for the average American.

      Look at our daily lives. I get up. I go to work. I come home. It’s "Miller Time" (tm). Tomorrow I’ll do the same and so on until it either goes away or I die. All the burdens of worrying Red vs. Bule states; who did what when; etc. etc. are just because... By yelling, "Live and Let Live" over and over again is completely worthless.

      Wait and see in five years of what I am saying is not true.

    • Munchhaussen by Proxy is a mental disorder mostly suffered by women. These women do terrible things to their children to gain attention and sympathy from others. They do it secretly and then play the victim. Mothers who send their children to be sacrificed in wars do this to gain sympathy and attention. This is the only explaination for a total lack of caring about their children, and now that congress has raised the death bennifit to $100,000 the sacrifice will even be lucrative. Wait and see how many mothers will be pressuring their children to go into combat not caring for what reason or lack of. This will provide months and years of sympathy for those women wrapped in the flag, as well as a "lotto" style win if that child gets killed.

    • Hey Jack Ass....I knew Clay. He was a soldier, a Father and more importantly, he had the courage to risk his neck for ungreatful Americans like you. As soldiers we don’t make foreign policy....but know this, at the very least when our country and the world calls on us we are there. Win loose or draw. So before you pass judgment on us "killers" remember the price of freedom. RLTW!

    • These soldiers are not killers you idiot. They are brave men and women, something you are not. I can’t believe you would call them killers and call the Iraqis innocent. Karma will get you for even talking about these brave men and women and about their families. Your family didn’t raise a smart one..

    • They are paid killers with no excuse except stupidity that they would believe Bu$h and go fight his dirty war for him and endanger the rest of us and make our country a terriorist target. With the help of these paid killers our country is being dragged down and made into the most hated country on earth. They are being pimped like prostitutes and can’t even see it. They think someone should be "grateful" to them for being so stupid. They even think they are heros by being a bunch of brain dead little killers for Bu$hco, and his military industrial corporate buddies who are stealing taxpayers money war profiteering and laughing their asses off that you jerks believe every lie they tell and go play killer games for them. You think you are doing "something" for the rest of us and we think you are a big stupid problem instead of glorifying your stupidity...get a brain somewhere and use it.

    • I feel sure all you who feel our men and women over there fighting are hired killers, and their effort buys nothing for you, can buy yourself a ticket to leave this country the rest of us love and we will be happy to reinburse you the cost.