JOLLY DAYS

Character

Via Andrew Sullivan, this wonderful, heartfelt piece.

I have spoken to children with scars from bullets on the backs of their heads, put there when they were toddlers. I have seen the graves of those who died and commiserated with those who somehow survived. Such things occur too frequently to stop them all. Yet in some situations, we can intervene. Such moments occur too infrequently to allow them to pass unseized, such opportunities are too rare to pass up. Now we have intervened in Iraq and have the historic opportunity to rehabilitate a land that has for too long suffered the law of the gun.

This piece by Sgt. Todd rises to an eloquence, from the pressure of circumstance (and his own natural gifts), that a professional writer would be hard put to replicate.

Write Sgt. N.J. Todd to express your pride that someone of his character and moral depth is representing our country.

[ Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Reynolds have been doing wonderful work pointing out the misleading reports coming out of Iraq. Here is someone who knows, who has seen into the darkness. ]