"Sgt. Steve Checo, 22, of Elizabeth, N.J. was killed yesterday when his 82nd Airborne patrol came under fire from seven to nine gunmen around 4 a.m. in Shkin, an area in the eastern province of Paktika, Afghanistan that is laced with smuggling routes and where Al Queda and Taliban remnants are known to be active."
Prayers for his family and friends, near and far. As we edge closer to war with Iraq, some are already in the midst of it. "Jesus Christ is the assurance that all of life, the life of every human and the rest of creation, originates in and ends in the life of God. Your life, or mine, or that of anybody, issues from the word of God. This is and remains the essential truth about you or me or anybody, no matter whatever else may seem to be true." Bill Stringfellow