We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:18:32 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Some people wonder why I do the memorial posts. They posit that doing so actually undermines support for the war. I suspect it might, in people who's support for the war is already slipping. I don't intend it to fan support for the war, either, however. "Redeeming their sacrifice" is not a good reason to continue a war. If your only reason to continue fighting is to avenge the dead... well, then you're starting to sound a lot like... oh, gosh, all those people who's only good reason to kill people is because someone killed their great-grandfather 100 years ago,... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:47:17 -0600 We will all die. I matters not so much how you die, as how you live. Semper Fi http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html#comment-63864 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html#comment-63864 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:05:51 -0600 It does indeed, kat. FG Det, 162d -- inbound... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html#comment-63860 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html#comment-63860 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:25:29 -0600 The British just lost a gunner there, announced yesterday. Name unknown. Family requested grace period and they are getting it. however, I routinely catch the RAF diaries on youtube and I am sitting here waiting to see if it is anyone I "know". This really stinks. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html#comment-63857 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/09/its_been_a_toug.html#comment-63857 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:20:57 -0600