This, from Robert Gates, is humbling. But more than that, it shows how expressing oneself nowadays is so much more acceptable and almost encouraged.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz2Jr0BFuO0
As an aside (and I'm loathe to generalise), it might be nice if George Bush attended the funeral of at least one of the men who died for his country. And I don't want to hear any knobbish arguement about images of it being picked up for propaganda purposes. I don't care about that. He would do well to show a similar level of humility as Gates. Perhaps if the troops felt a little less like pariahs, we wouldn't get so many problems.