Kelly, the first American journalist killed in the war

[sfc_darrel]

Michael Kelly, 46, the first American journalist killed in the war

He was quoted in the New York Times just four days ago as saying that he and other reporters enlisted in the Pentagon program because "there was a real sense after the last gulf war that witness had been lost. The people in the military care about that history a great deal, because it is their history."

Kelly is survived by his wife, Madelyn, and two sons, Tom, 6, and Jack, 3, according to the Associated Press.

Kelly's last column was published by The Post yesterday. It began:

"Near the crest of the bridge across the Euphrates that Task Force 3-69 Armor of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division seized yesterday afternoon was a body that lay twisted from its fall. He had been an old man ? poor, not a regular soldier ? judging from his clothes. He was lying on his back, not far from one of several burning skeletons of the small trucks that Saddam Hussein's willing and unwilling irregulars employed. The tanks and Bradleys and Humvees and bulldozers and rocket launchers, and all the rest of the massive stuff that makes up the U.S. Army on the march, rumbled past him, pushing on."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2003Apr4.html

[Boats]

My regrets to Mr. Kelly's family and friends. His work will now be remembered by those who can learn from his observations.

May he rest in peace