I really can’t stop thinking about Paul Douglas, the CBS cameraman killed on Memorial Day in Iraq. He is a horribly typical victim of this worthless war.
Strong
Paul Douglas “had the broad shoulders and thick legs of an American football tight-end or British rugby lineman. But he was quick and agile, and could (and often did) run fast for long distances carrying heavy equipment”, says Dan Rather. These are the best of us, our cream being taken.
Not An American
Paul was a tall, strapping Brit of African heritage, a great bear of a man with a smile as wide as the Thames. He looked like an athlete, and moved like one.
We started this war, and plenty of us are dying in it, but we’re dragging regular Iraqis and a whole host of others down with us.
Working
Paul Douglas died while he was making money. It seems all our modern diers seem to go that way, whether selling pizza in Israel or serving coffee at the top of the WTC or a marketplace bombing, killing is always economic.
God bless us all.