The War in Iraq hit particularly close to home with this news. Sgt. 1st Class Michael C. Ottolini, a twenty year veteran of the National Guard who re-upped was killed in Iraq last Wednesday, the victim of a roadside bomb. His family remembers him as one who believed in what he was doing. His son Darrell is quoted as saying that he
"hoped people would set aside their political views on the war and appreciate the sacrifice of the soldiers."
'"We are receiving the benefit of their anguish and their pain," he said.'
Those words should serve as a lesson to us all.