The Post's piece on Marine Maj. Douglas Alexander Zembiec, the "Lion of Fallujah," was an incredible, intimate, evocative and colorful portrait of a man whom many people will never know [" Marines' 'Lion of Fallujah' died while working for the CIA ," front page, July 16]. I am a liberal, bleeding-heart pacifist and don't have a lot of confidence in the ability of our military leaders to think outside of their own echo chamber. But it is the stories of these soldiers, of the fighting men and women on the ground who are called on to make the ultimate sacrifice for their subordinates, their comrades and their country, that humanize the real costs of war. It is through better understanding of them that the public can connect with the human element of war and not just the geo political strategy and partisan politics "gotcha games" that have dominated the past 13 years in media coverage.
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