We especially remember our friend Barbara Olson today, who was murdered on the plane that was flown into the Pentagon, who in her last minutes called her husband Ted for advice on solving the problem “an action entirely in keeping with her character.” She was a “Braveheart” and a “patriot.”

I recently came across an e-mail from her. We had been talking about the Clintons and had just done an interview on the Chandra Levy case that was ongoing that summer (she was a former federal prosecutor). She was already thanking me for promised coverage of her book on the Clintons forthcoming in the fall—again typical. Whenever I saw her—and I did not know her anywhere near as well as some of us (her dear friends Barbara Comstock, the Ledeens, the O’Beirnes…), but she would always thank me for our coverage of Ted’s fight to become solicitor general—the Left went all-out trying to hold him back—and our Florida post-election election coverage, to which she contributed with a byline and countless other ways. She was a remarkably gracious woman, besides the intellect and love-for-life and humor and tenacity…

Barbara Comstock talks more about Barbara here. Our prayers are with everyone who has had someone taken from them in this war. And always with Ted.