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Michael Kelly, R.I.P.

Michael Kelly, R.I.P. Troubleshooting 12 posts Apr 4, 2003 — May 10, 2003

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#1 Fri, 4 Apr 2003 - 14:42

U.S. Columnist Michael Kelly Killed in Iraq

Reuters
Friday, April 4, 2003; 3:23 PM

By Greg Frost

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Michael Kelly, a former editor in chief of The Atlantic Monthly, was killed along with an American soldier in an accident involving their Humvee military vehicle in Iraq, magazine staff and U.S. officials said on Friday.

A staunch advocate of removing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power, Kelly, 46, was both the first American journalist and the first "embedded" journalist to die in the 2-week-old conflict...

A Courageous Man

#2 Fri, 4 Apr 2003 - 14:55

Yes very sad.

#3 Fri, 4 Apr 2003 - 16:24

Landmine.

That's got to be in the top 5 "worst ways to go" list. I get sick just thinking about it.

I know it's wrong and depraved, but I can't help feeling that I'd feel less sad if it had been Geraldo instead. Just doesn't seem fair.

But no one should have to go that way. Tragedy.

#4 Sat, 5 Apr 2003 - 01:41

Well, at least one good thing came out of this pointless war.

#5 Sat, 5 Apr 2003 - 19:40

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Originally posted by malvolio:
Well, at least one good thing came out of this pointless war.

Say what?

#6 Sat, 5 Apr 2003 - 20:07

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Originally posted by malvolio:
Well, at least one good thing came out of this pointless war.

That's uncalled for.

Anyone's death is saddening - this is no exception.

#7 Sat, 5 Apr 2003 - 21:33

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Originally posted by malvolio:
Well, at least one good thing came out of this pointless war.

No, no, no. I wasn't a fan, but that's wrong.

#8 Sat, 5 Apr 2003 - 23:50

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Originally posted by malvolio:
Well, at least one good thing came out of this pointless war.

???!

#9 Sun, 6 Apr 2003 - 04:13

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Originally posted by malvolio:
Well, at least one good thing came out of this pointless war.

You shouldn't disrespect him just because you disagree with him politically (I assume that's why you wrote that).

#10 Sun, 6 Apr 2003 - 10:39

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Originally posted by malvolio:
Well, at least one good thing came out of this pointless war.

This is the very definition of the word "vile".

#11 Sat, 10 May 2003 - 06:12

A Problem With No Solution: The Death of a Beloved Child

By Marguerite Kelly
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, May 9, 2003; Page C08

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I've written the Family Almanac for 25 years, not because I'm so wise but because I'm so interested in the questions I get.

Parents have the most exhilarating, amusing, creative job in the world, and the most exhausting, demanding, relentless one, too. Somehow they are expected to do their best, day after day, even when they're scrambling to pay the rent or hold their marriage together or work for a wretched boss.

I've answered questions on everything from addictions to bed-wetting, day care to college, self-confidence to sex, but this time I'm the one with the problem and I don't know how to solve it.

Our only son, Mike -- an embedded journalist in Iraq -- was rushing toward Baghdad Airport on April 3 when his Humvee was ambushed, causing it to flip upside down and fall into a canal. Death was quick, but grief, I find, keeps going on and on and on and it affects me in strange ways.

I feel no denial. No anger. No bargaining. No depression. And this makes me wonder if I'll ever get to peace and acceptance. These five classic stages of grief, cited so authoritatively by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, aren't working for me.

Instead my grief is amorphous, deceitful, unpredictable...

#12 Sat, 10 May 2003 - 23:03

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Originally posted by roger_ramjet:
Death was quick, but grief, I find, keeps going on and on and on and it affects me in strange ways.

Maybe the grief never ends.