By now, everybody’s heard about the big death in Iraq this week. The Christian terrorist enabler, Tom Fox, who we must all surrender to his selfless sense of purpose and willingness to die for His beliefs. Of course, suicide bombers are willing to die for their beliefs so when “dying for your cause” it is important to discern what it is exactly that you’re dying for and whether it is truly worth paying that price. Did you die to free people? To enslave them into religious fascism? The reason does matter.

But most of us know what Tom Fox died for. He wanted to “investigate” what those mean old U. S. imperialists were doing to Iraq and protect their Iraqi “freedom fighters” from our racist bombs and “white colonialism” as he would say in his Voices In The Wilderness column. Judge not these men with a gun to my head, it’s the U.S. that’s the real criminal!

There were some other deaths in Iraq this week too. Glossed over in between pictures of a burning car and people awash in the carnage of a roadside IED and overshadowed by the glowing coverage given to Fox’s tortured end.

Gunnery Sgt. John D. Fry died for his cause too. Never heard of his name before? Well, why would you have? His cause is not one our media celebrates. His sacrifice is not as important in their eyes as Fox’s and as such does not warrant any coverage. But here’s a small part of his story:

Gunnery Sgt. John D. Fry was due to return home from Iraq to his wife and three children on March 15, just days before the three-year anniversary of the start of the war. But the diligent Marine who specialized in defusing explosive devices was killed Wednesday after he volunteered to disarm a bomb in Iraq’s war-torn Al Anbar province.

The shy 28-year-old Lorena native planned to return to his family at the Marine base in Lejeune, N.C., for six months before another tour of duty in Iraq in September. The unit to replace his group had already arrived in Al Anbar, while Fry’s unit awaited return flights home.

“He believed in what he was doing,” Malia Fry said of her husband. “He was protecting his country, and he was doing his job because he didn’t want his children to grow up with people blowing up buildings . . . How he felt about the conflict was that he was doing his job.”
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“He laid down his life so other Marines would be safe, and he did it willingly,” Malia Fry said. “Every EOD tech that is over there does the same thing a hundred times a day, and they don’t think about themselves. They think about the Marines . . . They think about the children that are over there.”

Not the way you’d hear Tom Fox talk about what our troops have gone through and accomplished as they are motivated by “hate” or that they kill poor, innocent “unarmed men lying on the mosque floor.”

But there’s more:

In interviews, Fry’s family described him as selfless in his work, protecting both his comrades and Iraqis from explosive devices.

Both his wife and his mother, Beth Fry of Lorena, described an incident in which the Marine answered a call to disarm a bomb and played a game of hide-and-seek with a young Iraqi boy before sending the youngster away from the site and out of danger.

On another occasion, John Fry arrived at an Iraq home to find a bomb strapped to a young mentally retarded Iraqi boy. The Marine disarmed the bomb and saved the child’s life.

“He was so proud to be there doing what he was doing,” Beth Fry said of her son. “Not just the war part … but the Marines and all the military people that are there have restored power, built schools, built hospitals and they have running water. Those are the things that nobody talks about and that nobody hears about.”

Our leftist media is content to shout Abu Ghraib at the drop of a hat. Willing to censor themselves from publishing cartoons (of all things) to offend delicate Muslim sensitives. And finally, to ignore the death of a true hero while promoting a moral relativist to sainthood.

Say a prayer for John Fry and his family tonight. He actually helped to make the world a better place.

Other good stuff at The Belmont Club and The American Thinker.

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