Hubris

Hubris is hubris.

Sometimes, it is the stuff screenwriters use to create funny characters such as 'Frazier' Crane, weekly hoisted on the petard of his own preening arrogance.

Journalists seem to live on the stuff.

This time, however, it got several people killed, who otherwise had a good chance of living out their normal lives.

A British family buries a beloved son. As does an Afghan family.

The journalist has a great tale to tell over his G&T's at whatever hotel bar he holds court in from here forward.

There is a book deal, with speaker bureau representation, in negotiations even now. Only the advance and deadlines need agreement. All in a day's work.

What piece of the movie and merchandise rights will our intrepid journalist claim?

OldSouth feels it coming...after a respectable wait, of course, followed by a tearful interview or two in tribute to those brave boys who died pulling his arse from the fire.

Oh, the horror and injustice of war, and I was there to record it, yea to experience it for you.

There is time, after all. The major book trade shows aren't until next June.