i would be shocked if anybody in this panel had ever heard of sam wilkeson. it echoes the gettysburg address, "a new birth of freedom." yet this is the legacy that has given us all of these embedded journalists. i think we need a deeper appreciation of that relationship. i'm curious as to whether the panelists think it is changing at all. it seems to me that there is more continuity than change. >> what i was trying to describe was the maturation of a journalist covering the military. when you come to the subject initially and you are learning about it and then you're part of it, become part of the club because you know how some of the things work. then you realize, wait a minute. my job is to be as hard on them as they are on themselves. my job is not to be a cheerleader. i am making them better by that first paragraph describing that journalist's son's death. and that is something that i see young journalists going to the same arc. as, there is a generation of journalists who covered the iraq war, and most of them have moved on to other things or moved on t