US Army officials have identified a soldier found dead less than 20 miles from Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, post media officials said Tuesday.

Pvt. Mehjor Morta, 26, is the third Fort Hood soldier to be found dead in the past month and at least the seventh since the start of 2020, according to previous CNN reporting.

In recent days, two headline-grabbing deaths have exposed the fundamental lie at the heart of the Declaration of Independence. Despite our Founding Fathers’ recognition of “life” as an unalienable right, the deaths of Summer Taylor and Vanessa Guillen demonstrate the space between our national ideals and the personal realities of too many.

Police in Colorado Springs, Colo., shot and killed a Fort Carson noncommissioned officer almost two weeks ago after the soldier pointed a rifle at police through the basement window of his off-base home during a domestic disturbance call.

The language at a small graduation ceremony inside a federal office building in Washington Friday morning was militaristic: Fighting. Frontlines. Enemies. War.

Ronald Sanchez’s hike along the Appalachian Trail was among the outdoor activities that helped lift him from the “darkness” of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder that followed deployments in the US Army, his sister said Tuesday.