Boyd

Malkin points to the NYP for more on Corporal Starr and the NYT pathetic response to using Starr to conform to their own view of the war.

NYP:

In a profile of multiple-tour vets, the Times wrote about Starr — who served in the First Battalion of the Fifth Marine Regiment — and quoted from a letter to his girlfriend found on his computer after his death. "I kind of predicted this," it read, referring to his death. "A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances."


There it is — dark, foreboding, pessimistic, without any suggestion that he believed he was in Iraq for a valid purpose.

and for the rest of the story...

"I don't regret going," he wrote. "Everybody dies — but few get to do it for something as important as freedom."

Nor did he have any doubts or questions about his mission: "It may seem confusing why we're in Iraq, [but] it's not to me. . . . I'm here trying to help these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives.

"To me, that is why I died," wrote Starr. "Others have died for my freedom — now this is my mark."

Again: "Others have died for my freedom — now this is my mark."

Those words ought to be chiseled in granite somewhere.

His words are an eternal testimonial to the heroic tradition of the United States Marine Corps and to the enduring nobility of his unqualified — indeed, saintly — personal sacrifice.

Damn right his words should be chiseled in granite somewhere. Seems to me that if we can give Lynndie England buckets of ink at the NYT we might could give Corporal Starr a paragraph or two more to print the rest of his letter. Thanks to his uncle for standing up for him.