Poetic Obituaries: [Scott L.] Kirkpatrick left for his second tour

of duty in Iraq in May of this year. On his myspace page, Kirkpatrick continued to post poems he wrote while overseas and posted pictures of smiling Iraqis.

"He had no malice toward these people. . . .He's the exact ideal of what every soldier should be," [Tony] Brown said.

from The Fairfax County Times: Friends remember soldier from Reston

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