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[anthonybaxter]

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/01/andy-olmsted.html

Andrew Olmsted, one of the few right-wingers that I could stand reading, was killed in Iraq the other day. This is the blog post he arranged to be posted in the case of his death.

Just read it.

Really. I have tears in my eyes.

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[hasimir.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of his stuff, but ... wow.

[vaingloriesque.livejournal.com]

There's a comment to that post that sums up my feelings rather well;

"I don't read Obsidian Wings, and wasn't aware of this man's existence till just now. I just wanted to say that his intelligence and humor and decency were so strongly communicated in this letter that he did part of what he intended in writing: he made what war takes from us painfully vivid, even to a stranger to him."

[anthonybaxter.livejournal.com]

exactly right. man, I hope I can go out as well.