A sequel to Carnacki's "A Father's Anguish"
Released from Prairie State Blue
Eric Zorn follows up his column on the letter of a fallen soldier's father to President Bush with e-mails home from the soldier himself. Kevin Landeck, of Wheaton, IL, was a son, a husband, a brother, and a soldier. He volunteered to defend the United States and was frustrated when the United States government failed to defend him.
I wish they would let us do our jobs. I am looking forward to coming home in April for my two-week leave. I will only have four months left in this hellhole and then I can be home with [wife] Bethany, my dog and pizza.