Flipping through this week's issue of Time, I was struck by an item in the letters section. Responding to a recent article by war correspondent Michael Weisskopf, who lost a hand in Iraq, reader Karen Howard of Redmond, Washington wrote:

"I very much appreciated Weisskopf's article and started to cry when I read about Specialist James Fair, the young man who suffered a brain injury, lost his eyesight and both hands. He weighs on my conscience because I have not reconciled myself to my responsibility for his injuries as an outspoken supporter of our liberation of Iraq. I have work to do on that, and it continues to keep me awake."