Pundit Review Radio

Tonight we have a unique edition of Someone You Should Know. Matt Currier Burden, author of Blog of War and proprietor of the #1 milblog Blackfive sent out an urgent message today asking us to pray for Corporal David Emery Jr. As Matt said, sometimes the best and only thing we can do is Spiritual Warfare. On February 7th, 2007, DJ was at a checkpoint near a crowded place when a terrorist walked up to the Marines. DJ’s Battalion Sergeant Major, Joseph Ellis (a recon Marine of 23 years), suspected that a bomber was approaching and put himself between the bomber and his Marines. "The bomber quickly detonated himself, instantly killing Sergeant Major Ellis. The Sergeant Major’s sacrifice absorbed enough of the blast to barely keep DJ from being killed. DJ was hit hard in his abdomen - an artery was cut causing kidney failure - both legs and one arm were shattered, and, in fact, his wounds were so severe that doctors didn’t think that he’d make it. They had him on a respirator, fighting infection, fever,