Quote of the Day

“As much as we would like to think otherwise, I am afraid that with the number of soldiers we now have in harm’s way, our losses will preclude us from continuing to do individual memorial ceremonies.”

--Brig. Gen. William Troy, former interim commander at Fort Lewis, Wash., in a May e-mail message announcing that the base would shift from holding separate memorial services for each soldier killed in action after deploying from the base to holding combined services once a month. That policy has been delayed after soldiers' families and veterans protested it, the New York Times reports.