I offer my condolences to the family of Lt. Daily as well.

He is a man they should be proud of. Like Casey Sheehan, he too, and so many others, are the embodiment of what made America great.

Us? What Us? And how exactly Noonan would you suggest Americans be worthy of this fallen soldier? By buy more from WalMart? By placing a magnet on their automobile? By voting for the political party that is led by the man who sent the 2d Lieutenant to war? By allow fear and ignorance to be the guiding principles of the most powerful republic on Terra? What Noonan, what is the real way patriots support those fighting for liberty. I will give you a hint it is not by wasting the blood of heores on the weeds of empire!

Made america great??? Those boys are dying for nothing. Just like all those men in vietnam died only to have the US withdraw years later, these men will have died in vain because the US will withdraw eventually.

Fact is, you cannot subdue a country of 25 million if they don't want you there.

I feel sorry for all the families that have lost men in this war, we all know it was in vain, and I hope this teaches america a lesson she shall never forget....leave the fighting to real men, not boys who write bad philosophy in their free time. I'm sure that soldier was having the time of his life getting killed.

First of all, your comments of this soldier and others like him are disgusting. Secondly you imply that the entire nation of Iraq does not want us there. Your opioin and lack of knowledge of this sudject only further my belief in the mental capacity of liberals/democrats.

"Those boys are dying for nothing."
"I'm sure that soldier was having the time of his life getting killed."

The great thing that he understood is that in a free world, he didn't need your permission to do the right thing. He didn't need you to agree with him. And he died so that others wouldn't need you to agree with him before they did the right thing. Such arrogance, such condescending from a person who would claim to care for the loss of his life! I pray and have faith that he keeps up his service in death as he did in life, watching over his family and comrades. He served and gave his life so that all Iraqis would come to understand they were not free, so that Iraqi children would not grow up being taught their hunger and starvation was caused by Americans as their leader lives in a dozen palaces, going to the bathrooms and sitting on thrones made of gold, as the corrupt Baathists profit off oil money traded for luxury and weapons.

God bless the Dailys & all recovering liberals that finally see the hypocrisy in the belief system. Thank you Lt. Daily for explaining so eloquently and for dying so heroically!

I think the Daily family should be so proud that their son was willing to fight for our freedoms. Even for those that condemn him for doing so. His letter was so ARTICULATE.

I wonder what we would be doing now if we were not fighting the terrorists in Iraq. Would it be their training camp with lots of money and equipment readying them to attack American? Pelosi, Murtha and other like them would, I guarantee be on the first trains to the camps.
Terrorists despise weak trouble makers. This came from a Muslim who was killed for his disagreements with his country.

Here is an interesting story. My oldest son just made his Eagle – so I know how hard it is. My next one is close and also want to go to Annapolis. But the young man below, well his story is just TOO inspiring.

I would hate to be the Al Queada or Taliban guy going up against this young man in a few years.

http://www.zwire.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=17875953&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6

Ashburn Eagle Scout upgrades school named for his father - By: Shannon Sollinger 02/20/2007

When Michael Newton needed an Eagle Scout project, he looked no further than Newton-Lee Elementary School in his Ashburn neighborhood.

Newton-Lee honors the memory of Michael's father, one of two Loudoun residents who lost their lives on American Airlines Flight 77 when it was crashed into the Pentagon Sept. 11, 2001. Dong Lee, of Leesburg, was also on the hijacked airplane. The school opened for students in late summer 2005, virtually landscaping-free. Michael's project corrected that.

Michael, now 16, is a student at Notre Dame Academy with an eye to a Naval Academy appointment. He was awarded his Eagle Scout rank Saturday night at St. David's Episcopal Church in Ashburn for landscaping the front area of the school named for his father, who was also an Eagle Scout.
Principal Jule Boyd suggested planting two flat, all-grass areas in front of the school where the buses stop, Michael said.

He gave himself a crash course in landscape design and went to work - two circles 20 feet apart, an "X" formation of English boxwoods in each of them, a pyramid of daffodils in each of the eight quadrants, and perennial flowering plants around the perimeter. He got a lot of help from Home Depot in Ashburn, Michael said, in the form of donated materials and discounts. The manager he approached just happened to be an Eagle Scout.

Next, Michael sent an e-mail to all the members of Ashburn Boy Scout Troop 1154. Volunteers signed up for three shifts of digging, planting and mulching on March 31, 2006.

"Then I went to Luck Stone [quarry] and talked to the foreman there, and he helped select a rock - they gave it to me -- that they shipped in the morning before. When the kids who helped were done working, they dipped their hands in paint and put handprints on the rock. On the front, I wrote 'NL '06.'"

Christopher Newton was 38 when he died. Michael was just making the transition from elementary to middle school.

This is the "human shield" tactic which Cindy Sheehan and the 9-11 widows are accused of using. If you have a point to make, Mark, make it but don't hide behind the real hero. You only defile his memory.

Aztec,

I made no point at all - but your guilty conscience made one for you.

If you posted this only to honor the memory of a fallen soldier, then I am wrong. But, if you posted this with the intent to garner support for the Iraq war, then you should have the guilty conscience. It is difficult for me to believe that there is not a hidden agenda in this.

Aztec,

I wept as I posted this last night...I'm moved to the depths of my soul by it...I even said a prayer to the Blessed Virgin asking her to help the man's family...you may make of it what you will.

It is difficult for me to believe that there is not a hidden agenda in this.

It is difficult for me to believe that there are so many sick trolls, such as yourself, who make sick comments and pollute this thread.

Well done, Mark; thank you for highlighting our true heroes, our finest...

I accept you at your word.

I think it is interesting how the dems who responded in this thread find it hard to believe and even resent someone like Mark Daily.

whoa, whoa, whoa,... Cindy Sheehan is legitimate because her son (who volunteered to return to Iraq a SECOND time) was killed. Yet the voice of a fallen hero explaining how HE felt is an illegitimate ploy? What a load of dingo’s kidneys.

How about reading what he wrote and trying to understand his point of view? How about something as simple as that. Duty, Service, Loyalty, and the Knowledge that you are making a difference.

The liberal aversion to serving in the military (16% of the military identify as Democrat) is really starting to show in your ignorant statements. You have no idea what’s going on - do you? You don't really understand why ANYONE - let alone a college graduate would join the Army or the Marines - do you? Please - admit it.

It's too late to educate you - at least don't block the heroes as they defend your right to be ignorant.

Oh and here is an example of flawed logic.

1. Most people are unhappy with the war.
2. I'm unhappy with the war.
3. I think we should come home NOW.
4. Most people must think that we should come home NOW.

You fail to recognize that some people who are unhappy with the war think we should step up the pressure and fight harder to win.

well put kahn, i completley agree with you

Mark, I thank you for posting this letter. It not only showed the valor and dignity and nobility of our fighting men and women, it was an amazingly articulate exposition of the inherent intellectual cowardice of the Liberal position.

This man had the courage to be introspective, to examine his thinking, to challenge his conclusions---and to act upon his discoveries. That process alone was enough to make me admire him.

The anti-American, anti-military, trolls who read this will cringe, or at least should cringe, because their hypocrisies and fallacious excuses for their moral and intellectual cowardice have been laid out, stripped of pretense, and shown to be what they are.

And the rest of us can be grateful we are defended by such men, and by such women, who get it.

Some of the trolls get it, too, but pretend they don't because they are not up to the challenges which would naturally follow. And some don't get it, seem to be constitutionally ill-equipped to comprehend anything that is not self-serving and facile and indulgent. I am not sure which is the lesser life form, but I am sure that Mark Daily's letter makes both feel pretty uncomfortable.

amir does us the favor of pointing out, yet again, the basic ignorance that fuels the radical Liberal side. He says "Fact is, you cannot subdue a country of 25 million if they don't want you there."

And your point is.....?

Because we are not TRYING to "subdue a country of 25 million..." Duh...

If there were 25 million terrorists in Iraq, I doubt that we would be there. If 25 million terrorists were to congreate in one country, we might bomb it, but we would not have a hundred thousand troops there. Duh....

There are a few thousand terrorists in Iraq, many from other countries, and many many of the other 25 million are darned glad we are there to help kill them off.

This, my friends, is what passes for intellectual political discourse on the Left. Rubbish, pure rubbish. GIGO