In the middle week of February 2011, Charlie Sheen, a 45-year-old substance abuser and crackpot, was all over the news, the tabloids and the Internet. 

In the middle week of February 2011 these U.S. Marines gave their lives.

• Justin Allen 23
• Brett Linley 29
• Matthew Weikert 29
• Justus Bartett 27
• Dave Santos 21
• Jesse Reed 26
• Matthew Johnson 21
• Zachary Fisher 24
• Brandon King 23
• Christopher Goeke 23
• Sheldon Tate 27

There is no media for them. Not even a mention of their names. They just died, far away from home and friends, doing a dirty, thankless, lonely job – proudly.

Presumably for us.