The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Britain's Prosecution of The Blogger Lionheart for Criticism of Islam by Wolf Howling, and Andy Olmsted by Obsidian Wings.  Ahere are the full results of the vote:

I normally make this post over the weekend, but this week it has been rather hard. Our winning entry in the Non-Council category is a post by a former Council Member, Andy Olmstead. It is one of those posts that you just don;t want to have to read or write about, given that it contains the reflections of a friend/colleague/hero written in the event of his death. Andy was one of the first soldiers killed in Iraq in 2008, and so we all have been honored to read the words that none of us would ever have wished to see -- and I say with the utmost respect that I wish to have never been so honored and that I could jump over to Andy's personal site and read something new and interesting. Alas, that shall never be again, and all I can do is honor his final words by stating that I awarded my first place vote to his poignant words, and wished I could have also given him the second place vote as well. It would appear that every one of us gave at least one of our two votes to him. May you rest in peace, Major Olmstead, and may those who survive be worthy of the sacrifice you made for our country.

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