A Must Read Post

Over at Blackfive we find the story of Marine Staff Sergeant Marcus Golczynski who died in Iraq during combat operations on March 27, 2007. One week before he was killed in action he wrote this in an email home:

" I want all of you to be safe. And please don't feel bad for us. We are warriors. And as warriors have done before us, we joined this organization and are following orders because we believe that what we are doing is right. Many of us have volunteered to do this a second time due to our deep desire to finish the job we started. We fight and sometimes die so that our families don't have to. Stand beside us. Because we would do it for you. Because it is our unity that has enabled us to prosper as a nation." - Staff Sergeant Marcus Golczynski

Go and learn more about this Marine you should know.

Serendipitously over at Kat’s place I found this verse of the day:

“Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life
will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.” (Luke 9:23-24)

Staff Sergeant Golczynski has saved his life by placing it in God’s hands. God Speed Sergeant, God Speed may you be remembered for all eternity.