PrintMarch 30, 2005
He told us so
Though it hardly seems like it, it was not long ago that the best part of every Wednesday — rain or shine, good day or bad — was waiting impatiently for the computer to fire up and browse to the Washington Post or TownHall.com to read the weekly column by the late Michael Kelly. Lucianne Goldberg aptly called it 'your Michael Kelly fix.'
Kelly's Wednesday pieces after September 11, 2001 became even more urgent reading, and if a person needed to sound witty, intelligent, and prescient during those perilous days that person would do well to quote from Kelly — at length.
It has been two years since Kelly's death, a death that came in Iraq during the service of his profession and his country. His was not what historians or dramatists would call a glorious death; it did not come in the middle of an important battle or hand—to—hand combat with Saddam's goons who managed to survive American bombing. He died on April 3, 2003 in a Humvee accident while embedded...(Read Full Article)
