"a wrenching account of a struggle for honor in a strange land"

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Col. Ted Westhusing was no ordinary Army officer He was one of the Army's leading scholars of military ethics, a full professor at West Point who volunteered to serve in Iraq to be able to better teach his students. He had a doctorate in philosophy; his dissertation was an extended meditation on the meaning of honor. On June 4th, in Bahdad, he killed himself. (LA Times Article) via metafilter and ikkyu2