Another roll over death leaves family waiting

Mom looking for answers in Iraq rollover death

By Will Higgins - Indianapolis Star
Posted : Sunday Jul 20, 2008 17:34:14 EDT

Dalarie Ford, a wife and mother from the Northern Indiana town of Knox, had never been one to rock the boat. She voted, but not passionately. Never had she felt wronged.

But now she senses injustice. She’s on a mission to find out precisely what happened in Iraq’s Anbar province on May 10, the day her son died.

Sgt. Joseph A. Ford was 23, a soldier with the Indiana National Guard’s 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. He was a gunner in an Armored Security Vehicle, a sort of tank-on-wheels that’s commonly used to guard convoys that haul food and supplies for U.S. troops.

The vehicle rolled over. Ford was killed. That’s the extent of the military’s public explanation.

Ford’s mother says soldiers privately provided her with additional details.

“They said the turret came loose and he was thrown out of the vehicle and the vehicle rolled over on him and it impacted his chest and face,” she said.
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