Albert Pyle’s piece nearly canonizes Jeremy Boorda, when really a kadish would have been more fitting. Boorda deserted his post, abdicated his responsibilities, broke his oath of service, and shamed the military and his country by killing himself. Somewhere in the chain of duty, honor, country, Boorda’s family got smacked the hardest.
Suicide does not restore honor. The honorable way out is to face the music, accept judgment of peers, and have courage to survive with dignity. Boorda’s suicide is not justified by the end of restoring honor. A shameful, cowardly act of suicide is the ultimate surrender to failure.
JIM SKEESE, SAN DIEGO, CA
