It's a small world, after all
We're publishing Nick Sowers story in the paper tomorrow. Those of you reading Patrick Eakes' blog know it already. Believe it or not, we didn't discover it at Patrick's place, although we should have. I read it there, but I was asleep at the switch and didn't say, "Hey, that's a story for us." Instead, our writer, Allison Perkins, got the same e-mail that Patrick did, and it took us awhile to get permission to publish. (You may recall that last Thanksgiving Day, Allison wrote a touching article about Nick's father, Brian, receiving a call from Iraq from Nick.) Bottom line, it seems like a story everyone should read.
To show my respect for getting beaten -- and to direct our readers to future Nick e-mails -- I called Patrick to ask him if we could refer to his blog and the Diary of a Soldier blog in the newspaper story.
As others have noted, it's funny how the contrails of our jets are intersecting.
