Blogger Andrew Olmsted has been killed in Iraq. Here's his moving posthumous farewell.
Andy Olmsted's last words
Tuesday March 18, 2008
Categories: Iraq
Filed Under: Andrew Olmsted, Iraq
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Did you post this a few months back? I thought I remembered seeing it here, although it may have been elsewhere.
"Major Andrew Olmsted, who posted a blog since May 2007, was killed in Iraq on Jan. 3, 2008. Olmsted, who had been based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, began blogging after his unit was sent to Iraq with the mission of helping train the Iraqi Army. A sniper killed Olmsted as he was trying to talk three suspected insurgents into surrendering. A sniper's bullet also cut down Capt. Thomas J. Casey. They were in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad."
blogs.rockymountainnews.com/denver/iraqiarmy/
May God have mercy on your soul, Andy. I don't know how religious your people are, or their faith, if any, but here is something for your loved ones (modified for all faiths):
Safely Home
by Unknown
I am home in Heaven, dear ones;
Oh, so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing passed;
I am now at peace forever,
Safely home in Heaven at last.
Did you wonder I so calmly
Trod the valley of the shade?
Oh! but God's arm to lean on,
Could I have one doubt or dread?
Then you must not grieve so sorely,
For I love you dearly still;
Try to look beyond earth's shadows,
Pray to trust our Father's Will.
There is work still waiting for you,
So you must not idly stand;
Do it now, while life remaineth--
You shall rest in God's land.
When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you Home;
Oh, the rapture of that meeting,
Oh, the joy to see you come!
Did you post this a few months back? I thought I remembered seeing it here, although it may have been elsewhere.
I'll defer to Rod for the definitive answer, but whereas a Google search of Crunchy Con doesn't show any hits except this post, my guess is "no". As Scott's post suggests, Maj. Olmstead's was covered elsewhere both in the blogosphere (*) as well as MSM articles (**).
(*) e.g., volokh.com/posts/1199488070.shtml
also www.blackfive.net/main/2008/01/godspeed-major.html
(**) e.g., www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/technology/07major.html
May his memory be eternal.
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