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Why is this any sadder that any lost life? Lots of troops have lost their lives. This man chose to be there. When you time is up, it's up.

Why is this any sadder that any lost life? Lots of troops have lost their lives. This man chose to be there. When you time is up, it's up.

Because some of us enjoyed his writings, perhaps we feel a little connection and are mourning losing someone we felt we "knew" in just a little way.

81 posted on 04/04/2003 6:45:34 AM PST by cyncooper ("Some of the Iraqis... 'told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start.'")

Oh jeez, can't you acknowledge that when we read the columns of a writer we like over a period of years we feel a sense of connection to him/her? So a little bit of sympathy and grief is appropriate?

Nobody said his life was more important than that of any soldier killed, just like nobody ever said Ernie Pyle was more important than any soldier killed in WW2, even though very few of us can name individuals outside of their immediate families who lost their lives in that war.

I'm sure there was quite an outpouring of sympathy for Pyle as well, and nobody complained that it distracted from respect for dead soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice.