Comments for Pride and Grief 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 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/02/pride_and_grief.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:07:28 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Pride and Grief A soldier cries during the funeral of Jon Felipe Romero Meneses on February 03, 2010 in Barcelona. Meneses, a Colombian member of the Spanish contingent, was killed in a mine explosion while six other soldiers were injured, after the armoured vehicle they were traveling in struck a powerful mine north of Qala-I-Naw in Badghis province in Afghanistan on February 01, 2010. AFP PHOTO/JOSEP LAGO/AFP/Getty Images Boq http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/02/pride_and_grief.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/02/pride_and_grief.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0600 Comment from Justthisguy on 2010-02-04 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/02/pride_and_grief.html#comment-98398 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/02/pride_and_grief.html#comment-98398 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:44:18 -0600 Comment from bman on 2010-02-04 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/02/pride_and_grief.html#comment-98371 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/02/pride_and_grief.html#comment-98371 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:21:51 -0600 Comment from Kevin on 2010-02-04 Honor, pride, loss of a comrade in arms, all difficult emotions to keep under control at such a ceremony.

Though, judging by the 'look' he is receiving, I suspect he will stifle it.

I often wondered why the 'look' is not taught at NCO schools, but, I suspect it has to do with experience and generations of previous NCOs who passed it down by example.
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