Newsday.com: David Hackworth, Vietnam vet and military analyst, dies at 74

By Matt Apuzzo Associated Press Writer

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Retired Army Col. David Hackworth, a decorated Vietnam veteran who spoke out against the war and later became a journalist and an advocate for military reform, has died, his wife said Thursday. He was 74.

Hackworth died Wednesday in Tijuana, Mexico, where he was receiving treatment for bladder cancer. His wife, Eilhys England, was with him.

'He died in my arms,' she said. The couple lived in Greenwich.

Hackworth, a Newsweek correspondent during the Gulf War, worked in recent years as a syndicated columnist for King Features, where he has been highly critical of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war. "

Semper Fi Col. Hackworth