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Mark Daily's memory continues to inspire hearts and minds to this day…

Matt Gallagher:

In November of 2007, the British author Christopher Hitchens wrote a nonfiction piece for Vanity Fair titled “A Death in the Family.” If you haven’t read it, I suggest that you do. New York University’s esteemed journalism school nominated it as one of the decade’s top 80 works of journalism. It’s about the death of a young lieutenant in Iraq, and the resulting effects on his family, his community, and the author. The lieutenant’s name was Mark Daily, a 2005 graduate of U.C.L.A., and he was my friend.