Sacrifice comes home
[Phillip Carter, Thursday January 18, 2007 at 3:09pm EST]
The Orange County Register reports that Army 2LT Mark Daily was killed in action in Iraq this week. An IED killed him and three of his soldiers in Mosul while they were serving with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. 2LT Daily joined the Army through UCLA's Army ROTC program, graduating in 2005 as that program's Distinguished Military Graduate. He went to Iraq out of a sense of personal duty, writing on his personal website:
"If you think the only way a person could bring themselves to volunteer for this war is through sheer desperation or blind obedience, then consider me the exception," he wrote.
Update: The full note, written on Oct. 29, 2006, is posted online.
Michelle Malkin: The immortal words of 2LT Mark Daily
