The Duke lacrosse team plays for the national championship today against Notre Dame in Baltimore. In a startling coincidence, blogger Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com ran a photo of a woman lying on the grave of a soldier at Arlington.
Someone read the name on the headstone and emailed Morrissey that the fallen soldier was James Regan, a former Duke lacrosse player who joined the military in 2004, eschewing a job on Wall Street. He was killed in 2007 in action in northern Iraq.
The woman in the touching photo is Mary McHugh, his fiancee. They were to have been married when he returned. As Ed says about the photograph:
It reminds us that not everyone “celebrates” Memorial Day.
