WashingtonYou can say this good thing about the burial today of Marine Sgt. Michael Washington, 20, whose father is a war vet and Seattle firefighter: He helps remind us there’s this war in Afghanistan. The arrival of Washington’s body here last week made the news, today’s funeral and burial plans are on TV, and there was a newspaper profile today, with more to come. A third-generation Leatherneck, Washington was killed June 14 with three other Marines by an IED, the homemade bombs that plague both wars equally: last month, American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan even passed the monthly toll in Iraq for the first time.Today, incidentally, is also the birthday of the most decorated Marine in U.S. history: Lt. Gen. Chesty Puller, born 110 years ago (he died in ’71). Puller almost singularly created Marine lore, always seeing disaster as an opporunity, to wit: “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time!” Or, as he once told his escort, “Take me to the Brig. I want to see the real Marines.” I suppose that could include the graveyard as well.