2 G.I.’s, Skeptical but Loyal, Die in a Truck Crash in Iraq - New York Times
Two of the soldiers who wrote of their pessimism about the war in an Op-Ed article that appeared in The New York Times on Aug. 19 were killed in Baghdad on Monday. They were not killed in combat, nor on a daring mission.
They died when the five-ton cargo truck in which they were riding overturned.The victims, Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26, and Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, were among the authors of “The War as We Saw It,” in which they expressed doubts about reports of progress.