I’ve been blogging for 16 months now and today heard the most unsettling story of a blogger. 

Major Andrew Olmsted was writing on the war in Iraq for The Rocky Mountain News - a daily newspaper in Denver. Sometime ago he wrote a posting that wasn’t immediately published. It was to be published in the event of his death.

Today that posting is live as Olmsted is not.

I respect his wish not to use his death for political purposes so I will withhold commentary on the war and the toll it takes.  Instead I encourage all to read his final posting.

“This is an entry I would have preferred not to have published, but there are limits to what we can control in life, and apparently I have passed one of those limits.”  (read more)

My sympathies to his wife and family.