I just finished reading a story in todays Washington Post, that truly moved me.

Carrie and Adam Kisielewski decided that marriage couldn't wait until he returned from Iraq.

What if he was killed in battle?

"I wanted to have the chance to say we were married," she said. "I didn't want to go through my life thinking I never had a chance to marry him."

So they married last June. In August, the Marine lance corporal and an officer were searching an empty school near Fallujah when they triggered an explosive device. The officer died, and Adam lost his left arm at the shoulder and right leg below the knee.

Thinking he was dying, Adam asked his buddies to tell his wife he was sorry he wouldn't be able to buy her a house. "They pretty much told me to go to hell, that I'd have to tell her myself," he recalled in an interview. "They gave me a reason to stay alive."

That last line reminds me so much of what our service men and women are all about. Loyalty, duty, honor. And the great sacrifices they make, including profoundly personal ones. I cant even begin to imagine what these young men and women are going through, and what their families go through. This is a must read article, if for nothing else, to get away from Hadith for a couple days, and understand the real sacrifice that our men and women in uniform go through in order to serve. I did not post anything on Memorial Day. Let this serve as my personal salute to all of them, and a thank you for serving.

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