Our soldiers, fighting for freedom
Michelle Malkin has an important post related to Cpl. Jeffrey B. Starr, who was recently profiled in New York Times as one of the more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers who have died in iraq. Cpl. Starr had left behind a note explainign his motivation for signing up for a third tour od duty in Iraq. While the Times noted that he “believed strongly in the war, his father said,” the newspaper did not publish the powerful words of the soldier himself that were contained in his final dispatch:
I don’t regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it’s not to me. I’m here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark.
There’s more to read at Michelle Malkin’s blog. Do it.
