The Iraq War hit a little closer to home this week. Recently, I had the discussion that it was only a matter of time before most of us would know someone who was injured or killed in the fighting. Then, I got an e-mail telling me that an aquaintance from Georgia Tech was killed by hostile fire on Wednesday. I feel funny reacting so strongly, since I didn't really know him well. Most of my friends knew him because he was Georgia Tech's undergraduate student body president. I knew him because he escorted me during the weekend of Field Training Exercises with the Army ROTC. I was there observing as a reporter for the Technique - he taught me how to use night vision goggles and shoot an M-16. I asked him and the other ROTC students about their aspirations and their fears and their reasons for joining the Army. I didn't print too many of their responses because they seemed too personal to be public. Its a sad day whenever someone's life is cut short by violence. And a little shocking when a member of your generation is that victim.

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