USA Tank lost, in Najaf instead of Afghanistan.

A Father Transformed by Anguish

Scars Define the Man Who Burned Himself After Son's Death in Iraq

By David Finkel
Washington Post Staff WriterSunday, January 16, 2005; Page A01

BOSTON -- Another day of trying to recover.

Once again, Carlos Arredondo, whose reaction to the death of his son became one of the iconic images of the Iraq war, is reading the last e-mail he received from him. "I'm in najaf," the e-mail from Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander Scott Arredondo begins, and those three words are enough to make a 44-year-old father once again feel as though he is on fire.