From: The Irish Echo (June 9-15,2004; pg 2)

[H2O Man]

The Irish Echo has an article on Frank Carvill, a patriotic Irish-American activist, killed while on duty in Iraq. Frank, 51, was a founding member of the Emerald Isle Immigration Center in NYC. He had been a member of the NJ National Guard for over 20 years. Though he may have been able to avoid service in Iraq, his loyalty to his friends in the NJNG resulted in his going to try to secure as just and lasting a peace in Iraq as he wanted in Ireland.

It is tragically ironic, the IE notes, that this energetic community activist, who worked as a paralegal for the Port Authority, had survived the 1993 attack on the WTC, and had narrowly missed death on 9-11.

I was struck by a last letter he wrote his good friend, Cody McCone: "In his last letter he expressed astonishment as to how the private companies were seemingly taking over the country."

[patrice]

1. I know some people would say it isn't the same money, but . . .

it's those private companies that are using up the resource$ that our troops need.