As a mother of two US Soldiers, one currently deployed to Afghanistan and the other soon to deploy to Iraq, I can't even understand why the press is allowed to be embedded. War is horrific, but unfortunately it is a fact of life... I blame the press and their coverage of the War on Terror for this war continuing on so long. Why don't we just let our service members go out and do what they have to do and come home. Politics and media do not belong on the battlefield.