Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Major Andrew Olmsted; husband, father, son, soldier, blogger and American. He and Captain Thomas Casey were killed in Diyala, Iraq in an ambush of their training team. Major Olmsted left a post to be posted on his blog in the event something happened to him. Unfortunately, it did and it has been posted. Excerpt:
"I'm dead. That sucks, at least for me and my family and friends."
Go here or here to read it and ask yourself what Michener wrote in The Bridges At Toko-Ri, "Where do we get such men?"
You can read more of his work at his blog or at the Rocky Mountain News blog.
Hat tip: Blackfive, Instapundit and Hot Air.
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