Updated to reflect the losses of Captain Dawe, Captain Francis, Master Corporal Bason, Corporal Anderson, Corporal Bartsch, and Private Watkins on 04 July:
'Say hello to her for me'
Sgt. Christos Karigiannis became famous for a letter he wrote to Maclean's about our university cover girl. He died in Afghanistan
MICHAEL FRISCOLANTI, MARTIN PATRIQUIN & NICHOLAS KÖHLER | July 9, 2007 | Article Link
Three days before he died, Christos Karigiannis checked his email. It was Father's Day, and the 31-year-old sergeant had just returned to Kandahar Airfield after a lengthy stint outside the wire. Not surprisingly, his inbox was loaded. Loved ones back home had not heard from him in a while, and they were anxious for an update. They asked the usual stuff. How is the mission going? Did you receive my care package? How hot is it? But one friend had a much more urgent question: Do you know you're famous?
Staring at the screen, Karigiannis could only laugh. He barely remembered sending that letter to Maclean's -- the one that thanked the magazine for featuring such an "extremely attractive young lady" on the front of our annual University Student Issue. And yet there were his words, repeated all over the Internet. "Looking at Playboy or some other such magazine just does not excite anymore seeing as how it is all rather superficial and very overdone," he wrote. "The very refreshing image on your cover, given this girl's natural beauty and incredible sexiness, had most of us in agreement that she is the best pin-up in our collection. Who would have thought that our most impressive female photo would come from Maclean's?" More on link
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