http://www.diatribune.com/final-salute Comments for "Final Salute" en http://www.diatribune.com/final-salute <p><img width="200" align="left" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/272136747_4311d055b7_m.jpg" />Remember this photo? I'm sure you've seen it a dozen times as it's made it's way around the web. Her name is Katherine Cathey and she's a mother, a mother of a son who never met his father Marine 2nd. Lt. Jim Cathey. Katherine mentions this photo in a video, of which I'll give you the link to in a moment, one you should view. </p><p> Recently NPR's <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13"><i><b>Fresh Air</b></i></a> aired an interview with journalist Jim Sheeler who won a Pulitzer Prize for his series about Marine Colonel Steve Beck and the families of the fallen soldiers. Katherine Cathey was one of those families that Col. Beck helped. The interview was called <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90065224"><b>A 'Final Salute' to Fallen Marines</b></a> and you can read abit at that link, as well as listen to, or <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=90065224&amp;m=90067153"><b>you can click here</b></a> to bring up the NPR player to listen in, it's abit over 31min. long and well worth the listen.<br /> </p><p><a href="http://www.diatribune.com/final-salute">read more</a></p> http://www.diatribune.com/final-salute#comments Afghanistan grief Iraq war Sun, 11 May 2008 10:26:01 -0600 jimstaro 3616 at http://www.diatribune.com