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A sad commentary on the State of our Union

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Folks, I hope you will bear with me as this post will be lengthy. There was sad news at Blackfive late yesterday afternoon:
A respected member of the blogging community who also happened to be serving our nation was killed in Iraq Wednesday.
There was a piece published by this young man in February at the [...]

Posted in Death and Dying, Our Military, Sadness | 2 Comments »


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