I just found out that one of my classmates David Weimortz was killed over the weekend in Iraq. He was in the Marine Corps and died serving his country. It's amazing how easy it is to forget what's going on in the world until you're confronted with it head on. Mortality seems so much more real when it happens to someone your own age that you knew personally. I know that everyone has their opinions about the war, and I certainly have never been a supporter...but I truly hope some good comes of it. People are really making the ultimate sacrafice...and it would be an enormous tradgedy if it were all for nothing....

RIP David W. - I can't help but feel that your life was taken much too soon. Peace and Blessing to the Weimortz family as well during their time of sorrow.