BillCahir

Letter to the Unborn Twins of a Fallen Marine

Dear Cahir Kids: Word of Bill Cahir's death on a battlefield in Afghanistan spread through Washington on a grim August morning in 2009. Those of us in the business of journalism, which was your father's profession before he became a United States Marine, are accustomed to sad news. But this was especially hard to hear. We asked ourselves questions that have no answers. Why him? Why now? And a more concrete question: What was William J. Cahir even doing in combat again, at age 40, with a pregnant wife at home – and on his third combat mission in five years? ...

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