The most chilling thing I read yesterday

I stopped and read three times this
quotation in Greg Jaffe's profile
of a Marine major who committed suicide not long after returning from Iraq and
retiring on partial disability: "I used
to take great pride in who I was and what I have accomplished. I failed!! I
failed everyone. My men in the Corps died unnecessarily as I sat on my ass.
What a joke!"

Bonus fact: A month after his
suicide, his son shipped out to boot camp.