That's your tribute to your cousin, a cut and paste news item? Don't you have any personal insights that honor his life?
Do you have any reflective conclusions from this event other than Islam is a scourge that needs to be exterminated from the face of the Earth?
How is that, in any way, honoring your cousin's death? Was he hired by Dyncorp to go to Iraq and wipe the scourge of Islam off the planet? He was there, ostensibly, to provide protection for the players who were building a new, democratic Muslim nation. Did he die for naught?
I am confounded by that thinking.
" That's your tribute to your cousin, a cut and paste news item? "
You asked to know a little about him and the story included some . It wasn't meant as a tribute .
Eric was a patriot who felt he had a duty to be over there in Iraq . He was in the Green Zone which was supposed to be the safest place to be over there . It wasn't ...
" Do you have any reflective conclusions from this event other than Islam is a scourge that needs to be exterminated from the face of the Earth? "
Needless to say , I am very , very angry at this moment . Islam and Christianity are incompatible on this planet IMO ; it's either them or us as I see it . I don't know how my cousin felt about it as I didn't see him for some years . I am in Japan in case you didn't know .