I was reading

The Washington Post this morning. There was an article in there about a young marine from the town of Stuart, Virginia, who was killed in Iraq. There were the normal comments from his family and townsfolk, but one paragraph stood out to me:

His twin sisters, Brooke and Ashley, are attending college. He took out an insurance policy before he left for Iraq and directed that the money should pay for their educations. They are the future, he wrote in a letter he mailed to a family friend to be opened if "the worst" happened.