A soldier speaks, from beyond the grave.
In this age of hyper communication, this soldier, a fellow bloggers, planned his last words and last post. A chilling reminder about mortality in the communication age. War, death and blogging. I also found out from HuffPo (yes, I read it a lot) that he was one of the top military bloggers, It's just so sad to watch this happen, this war is the defining moment of our generation.
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato*This is an entry I would have preferred not to have published, but there are limits to what we can control in life, and apparently I have passed one of those limits. And so, like G'Kar, I must say here what I would much prefer to say in person. I want to thank hilzoy for putting it up for me. It's not easy asking anyone to do something for you in the event of your death, and it is a testament to her quality that she didn't hesitate to accept the charge. As with many bloggers, I have a disgustingly large ego, and so I just couldn't bear the thought of not being able to have the last word if the need arose. Perhaps I take that further than most, I don't know. I hope so. It's frightening to think there are many people as neurotic as I am in the world. In any case, since I won't get another chance to say what I think, I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity. Such as it is.
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