There seems to be a familiar pattern in the way the Guard representatives handled this mishap. They took ownership of it, and said they wished they could undo the problems caused to everyone involved. Isn't that pretty much the way everything is handled from the top down in this war? Mess up, take the blame, and repeat. That's called insanity. It may be difficult to get family members to speak up about how the absence of their soldier is affecting them, but not having that kind of quote lessened the value of this story for me. The more personalized the press can make stories of this nature, the more it will balance all of the stories that have been done with the Pentagon's blessing - those that promote the administration's agenda. There seems to be a lot of room for the press to step up with stories highlighting the impact of this war on our young people and their families.