A rifle driven into the ground, with a helmet on top, and some tags. And that is the tribute that this man has earned.

Some may think to be remembered in this way would be a disgrace to a soldier.

But this is not disgrace.

The greatest monuments to fallen man

are not made in marble.

They're deep in the sea, deep in the jungles, on foreign battlefields,

a rifle driven into the ground, with a helmet on top, and some tags.

And that is the tribute that this man has earned.

<Irwin, The Last Castle, 2001>