I was driving to the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast yesterday morning, and because it was so early I couldn’t bother anyone on the phone I turned on my podcast of the previous day’s radio shows. I came across an NPR interview with Steven Beck, a United States Marines colonel whose job it is to notify families of their loved one’s deaths in Iraq, and Jim Sheeler, the journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles he wrote after following Beck on his rounds and spending weeks with the families whose loved ones had been killed. You can still listen to it at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90065224, and I absolutely urge you to do so. As the number of young people who die in Iraq keeps mounting, I think we have started to become numb to the horrible tragedy that each death is for the soldier and his or her families. This radio show, where the authors give compelling firsthand accounts of how the families struggle to cope with their losses, brings it all back home.