The last time I blogged about getting an e-mail from Michael Fumento, I got one comment: “You get e-mail from Michael Fumento? Cool.”

Yes, we get e-mail from Michael Fumento, and it is pretty cool, and God willing, we’ll keep getting e-mail from him for many years.

But that’s by no means a certain thing. In his latest e-mail, Fumento detailed his plans to spend April in Iraq, to cover the war. Not from the relatively cushy “Green Zone” in Baghdad, but in Ramadi, the capital city of the terrorist world. And not from a hotel or a barstool, but embedded with the First Marine Expeditionary Force, and going on patrols with the indigenous Iraqi Security Forces.

It’s dangerous stuff, but Mike says he wants to get the story, and the story is where the war is.

He’ll get the story; we have no doubt about that. We pray to St. Michael the Archangel, patron of soldiers, and to St. Paul the Apostle, patron of journalists, through Christ our Lord, to protect our friend and countryman on his mission. We want to see Fumento in the byline, not the headline.