[Q]He was a soldier first, and that was clear when Army Maj. Alan G. Rogers was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Rifles were fired. A bugler played taps. An Army chaplain said the decorated officer would be remembered as "one of the heroes of history."
Rogers, 40, was killed by a makeshift explosive device in Baghdad on Jan. 27 while in a Humvee. "As God would have it," his commanding officer wrote to his family in a letter, "he shielded two men who probably would have been killed if Alan had not been there."[/Q]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032103036.html
Back in the closet even in death.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/03/the-washington.html
Rogers, 40, was killed by a makeshift explosive device in Baghdad on Jan. 27 while in a Humvee. "As God would have it," his commanding officer wrote to his family in a letter, "he shielded two men who probably would have been killed if Alan had not been there."[/Q]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032103036.html
Back in the closet even in death.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/03/the-washington.html