I appreciate your update and am relieved that it was the widow's informed decision to attend the president's speech as exhibit A of American heroism and devotion to country (I love my nation too, and I served in uniform 1966-'69), and I am encouraged that you saw she was put to use for political purposes. Ryan's father blames the president for a poorly planned/executed operation that killed his son. The widow obviously wants to believe her husband died for a good cause. I don't think the media have twisted a point, I think the administration has done so, to distract from a failed tactical mission that turned out badly, as badly as Benghazi. There were several "monsters" involved in this particular FUBAR escapade, but "liberal" commentators are not among them. Who did they shoot? What decisions by "liberal media" result in deaths in a foreign rebellion?