Bob CollinsWhen a soldier dies, a governor orders flags lowered, we newspeople run a story, a town says “goodbye,” and then everyone moves on.
Almost everybody.
In the last week, two American soldiers died in Afghanistan.
When a soldier dies
About the blogger
Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscutBob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.