Andrew Olmstead
Blogger Andrew Olmstead has been killed in Diyala. Blackfive adds "I just found out that, yesterday, Andrew Olmsted's unit was ambushed. Andrew was killed."
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posted by wretchardthecat at 1/04/2008 04:10:00 PM
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11 Comments:
WOW. The comments left at Obsidian Wings will tear your heart to pieces.
Godspeed.
Major Olmstead specifically requested that his death not be politicized. His life will speak for itself.
hilzoy (?) noted that most commenters were respecting the Major's request - from what I read, the posters were expressing their grief.
God rest his soul.
It's the one that brings it home. Any statistical argument about the decline in deaths in Iraq will be true but beside the point.
Because we read Olmstead, we knew him, if ever so slightly. He was unique, as all of us are unique. There will never, in the wide spaces of time, ever be another Andrew Olmstead. What he did, he did.
And how we respond will define us. Not all tears are evil.
That last letter is a rough one.
Godspped indeed.
I booked marked his post from beyond, I couldn't finish reading it... it really choked me up.
Farewell, he shall not be forgotten.
For No greater love...,
Thank you... seems miserably not enough.
If by "ambushed" you mean fragged by in Iraqi soldier, than I guess he got ambushed.
Major Olmstead represents the flawed but perfect example of the greatness of the true american person
I shall, no matter the cause of his death, remember him for dying to protect the innocent women and children.
he was a man...
Olmsted. Not "Olmstead."
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