Sat, 06 Oct 2007

On the life and death of Mark Daily

Christopher Hitchens has taken a few knocks lately in the Catholic blogosphere; here's another side of him in his latest essay for Vanity Fair, A Death in the Family. From VF's blurb:

As America struggles with losses in Iraq, one in particular has given Christopher Hitchens pause: a young soldier named Mark Daily, killed in Mosul, who cited the V.F. columnist as an inspiration to sign up.