Yet another reason to be proud today of Joe Skelly, NRO’s man in Baquba, Iraq, and a good friend of a number of us in NR’s extended family. In an exchange of emails (“things are very intense here, heating up literally and figuratively. But we are keeping our cool”) today, he tells me this (typically, it was buried somewhere towards the end of his note):

“Some good news last week. We had an awards ceremony here and I was fortunate to be awarded the Bronze Star.”

And yes, Joe being Joe. he couldn’t resist pointing out that he now had something in common with John Kerry.

Come home safe, Joe.