Christopher Hitchens’ piece in this month’s Vanity Fair is quite something.
Mark Daily, a young officer in the Seventh Cavalry, volunteered for the army despite his reservations about the wisdom of the war in part because some of Christopher’s articles inspired him to do so. Hitch’s latest piece reflects on that heavy burden (shared to one degree or another by all of us who supported the war) and on the life and death of a remarkable young American.
If you read one thing today, make it this article. Here’s Christopher describing his first meeting with the Daily family:
As soon as they arrived, I knew I had been wrong to be so nervous.
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