One thing I have learned about myself since I've been out here is that everything I professed to you about what I want for the world and what I am willing to do to achieve it was true. ... My desire to "save the world" is really just an extension of trying to make a world fit for you.

Lt. Mark Daily, 21, killied by IED Jan, 2007, in a letter to his wife.

Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt;

He only lived but till he was a man;

The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd

In the unshrinking station where he fought,

But like a man he died.

Your cause of sorrow

Must not be measured by his worth, for then

It hath no end.

MacBeth Act V Scene VIII