What Kind of Democracy Is This?'' A grieving father wants to know

May 23, 2007

'What Kind of

Democracy Is This?'

A grieving father wants to know

by Justin Raimondo

The family of Andrew Bacevich, a 27-year-old first lieutenant who was recently killed in an ambush north of Baghdad, doesn't want to see its beloved son and brother turned into an impersonal symbol of a tragic and unnecessary war: they want him to be remembered as a special person, "a great-looking kid with an infectious smile," as one of his close friends put it at his funeral service.