New York Times Smears A Dead Marine

The NYT featured a letter found on the computer of Cpl Jeffrey Starr, obviously intended to be read after his death.  But they only bothered to print the one line from the letter that fits their politics.  The Times printed the following:

 

Sifting through Corporal Starr's laptop computer after his death, his father found a letter to be delivered to the marine's girlfriend. "I kind of predicted this," Corporal Starr wrote of his own death. "A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances."

Here is the actual letter that was on his laptop:

"Obviously if you are reading this then I have died in Iraq. I kind of predicted this, that is why I'm writing this in November. A third time just seemed like I'm pushing my chances. I don't regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me. I'm here helping these people, so that they can live the way we live. Not have to worry about tyrants or vicious dictators. To do what they want with their lives. To me that is why I died. Others have died for my freedom, now this is my mark."

As you can see, this puts quite a different spin on his letter.