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To: Boston Blackie

"Everyone dies, but not very many die for freedom."

Written by a soldier, (in a letter to his girlfriend), b4 he died in Iraq. I heard this on Sean yesterday, a simple but important statement by an ordinary man doing extraordinary things.


5 posted on 08/19/2005 5:47:36 PM PDT by jp3 ("Who cares what entertainers think about international affairs." Johnny Carson, Dec. 1967)
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To: jp3

I would rather revere the memory of young soldier Sheehan. But I can't forget that she lost a son and that pain doesn't go away. Maybe someday she will just think about her son.


10 posted on 08/19/2005 6:11:45 PM PDT by Thebaddog (How's yer dawgs?)
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