Must read in the Washington Post

On the same day the Post publishes a Knucklehead of a Consumer article, another story was published. It featured our favorite milblogger Chuck and the non-profit group Soldiers' Angels. You really must go over and read it. Registration is required, but its free. I'm only going to excerpt the very end.

Now they're all sitting in a room at Mologne House, the outpatient center that's part of the Walter Reed complex. Everyone is headed home next week. Ziegenfuss is wearing walking shorts and a knit shirt. The clothing covers up many of his injuries. The skin over the wounds is purple, bright in some spots and dark in others. He, Carren, Alice and Bair sit around a table talking. They're going for pizza in a minute.

"I think he's had nine operations," says Alice.

"Does that include the ear?" he asks.

"Ten," she corrects herself.

"They took a piece of my head and put it in my ear," he says, explaining surgery to repair a perforated eardrum.

Ziegenfuss is in good spirits, if slightly apprehensive about his future. What does a captain with nine fingers do?

"Get back in line," he says, citing what he most wants to do -- return to Iraq and his command.

For Bair, the relationship is winding down. There are other soldiers she looks in on, other wounds to mend. None of it will change the world. Hand-holding and sandwiches and toothbrushes rarely do.

They just make it a little more bearable, these acts of kindness from strangers in a time of war, these things that bind us.

Thank you Kathleen Bair and Soldiers' Angels for helping care for Chuck and our other servicemen. Get well Chuck and God bless you and your family.

Hat tip- Mudville Gazette