Thursday, October 04, 2007

Read this

A young soldier to his wife:

My desire to "save the world" is really just an extension of trying to make a world fit for you.
And the journalist whose words inspired him to sign up:
... but when John Daily took the first scoop from the urn and spread the ashes on the breeze, there was something so unutterably final in the gesture that tears seemed as natural as breathing...
Hitchens on the death of a soldier.

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