Joe Anzack of Torrance, CA last logged onto his MySpace account on April 24, 2007. He wanted to return home and settle down with someone, according to his brief autobio on MySpace. Joe will never get to do that. Joe was one of three U.S. soldiers who were taken captive by evil-doing Al-Qaeda types, whom the left in this country puissantly supports. It is reported today that Joe's tortured and mutilated body was found in the Euphrates River in Iraq. Joe was only 20 years young. It had not even been two years since he graduated from South High School in Torrance.
This is the first war fought in the Internet era. As frequently chronicled here on The Fairbank Report, the web -- in particular the blogs -- have given voices to fallen heroes. See The Fairbank Report's numerous salutes to fallen liberators; our telling of their stories and lives are made possible by the blogs of the friends of the fallen soldiers. In Hero Ming Sun's case, almost instantly, Ming's friends gave voice to his life via the web. So again here in Liberator Joe Anzack's case. He speaks -- from the grave. And his friends' heartfelt voices via his and their blogs portray a short but fulfilled life. Joe's words and pictures haunt us. It is as if he's still with us.
Perhaps he is.
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