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"One thing is for certain, as disagreeable or as confusing as my decision to enter the fray may be, consider what peace vigils against genocide have accomplished lately. Consider that there are 19 year old soldiers from the Midwest who have never touched a college campus or a protest who have done more to uphold the universal legitimacy of representative government and individual rights by placing themselves between Iraqi voting lines and homicidal religious fanatics. Often times it is less about how clean your actions are and more about how pure your intentions are."- 2LT Mark Daily, KIA (Iraq) January 15, 2007

Photos of 2nd Lt. Mark J. Daily, a native of Los Angeles, Calif., and Staff Sgt. John E. Cooper, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, two of the four Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, based out of Fort Bliss Texas, who were killed by an improvised explosive device Jan. 15., are adorned with unit coins and a Bronze Star and Purple Heart Medal during a memorial ceremony held Jan. 18 at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brian Sipp, 4th Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs)

Photos of Sgt. Ian C. Anderson, a native of Prairie Village, Kan., and Spec. Mathew T. Grimm, a native of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., two of the four Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, based out of Fort Bliss Texas, who were killed by an improvised explosive device Jan. 15., are adorned with unit coins and a Bronze Star and Purple Heart Medal during a memorial ceremony held Jan. 18 at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brian Sipp, 4th Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs)

Lt. Col. Marvin A. Hedstrom, commander, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (left) and Command Sgt. Maj. Charles Cook, command sergeant major, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (right) mourn the loss of four 2-7 Cavalry Soldiers during a memorial ceremony Jan. 18 at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq. The four were killed by an improvised explosive device Jan. 15. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brian Sipp, 4th Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs)

The look on the Sergeant Major's face says it all...

Michelle Malkin has more about Lieutenant Daily

Godspeed, SPC Grimm, SGT Anderson, SSG Cooper and 2LT Daily.  Godspeed.