From Jack Dunphy, in case you missed it:
Dan Bessant was killed by a sniper last month, five days before Christmas. He was on patrol and assisting a comrade when the gunman, driven by an ideology altogether foreign and incomprehensible in civilized society, cut him down with a rifle shot from more than 100 yards away. He left behind a wife and an infant son, born only last October. He was 25.
Officer Dunphy is writing about Los Angeles.
And from Monday, Bill Crawford collects some actual good news from Iraq.