This piece contains some of the most meaningful and moving tape I have heard from American mothers talking about their children (sons in this case) in Iraq. A detail I won't forget: one mother, packing up Crystal Light to send to her son, telling us that the drinking water in Iraq is always warm, and so when her son came home the tap water made his teeth hurt because it was so cold. Also, a mother describing a goodbye to her son at a base in Germany, and the two of them looking back at each other from a distance and trying to memorize the other ones face. Beautiful, beautiful tape. Unfortunately, I think the piece gets a bit "in the way" of the tape itself. The piece has almost too much information, too much script. I wanted to hear more from the mothers, to listen to a piece that was less produced for a news slot and more focused on the emotions and tones of the mothers living through this experience.