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IN a recent "Diary" for National Review Online, I told the terrible story of Mithal al-Alusi, a gallant Iraqi politician and democrat whose two sons and bodyguard were gunned down in Baghdad on February 8. I invited NRO readers to send messages of condolence for Mithal, which I would forward to him in Baghdad. Within 48 hours, I had received almost 200 letters, many of them from the parents, relatives, and friends of active-duty U.S. soldiers and Marines.
The letter-writers were inspired by the gallantry of Mithal's response to his terrible loss. He told Radio Free Iraq that
my children, three people [in all]--one of my bodyguards and two of my ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The face of gallantry: what one Iraqi's case tells us about the...