Corporal Diana L. Kavanek, USMCThis evening ABC World News with Charles Gibson featured a wonderful story of courage, resilience, commitment and what eventually flows directly from them.....love. It is the inspiring story of Marine Corporals Aaron Mankin and Diana Kavanek. Although I didn't have the privilege of knowing Cpl. Mankin, I have met Diana. Then Corporal Kavanek (she and Aaron are now married)and I returned in the same group of Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) in February of 2005. In an age when the media seems so fixated on young adults mired in adolescenent excess it is heartening to know that ABC News is taking the time to tell this simple tale of genuine heros. Semper Fi!
You can read here more about what Diana did is Iraq. I am re-posting a sketch I did of her.
