For just a moment last Sunday, I was inconvenienced by the war in Iraq.

Sure wish I'd handled it better.

I was in Cincinnati for the funeral of Matt Maupin, a staff sergeant in the Army Reserve. A lot of you have heard of Maupin. He was missing in action for four long years, and throughout that time, his family publicly dared to hope that he would come home alive.

Maupin was captured in 2004 after his convoy was ambushed west of Baghdad. Soon after, his captors released g ...

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