Sometime a few words are worth a thousand pictures. Last Friday, Tom Brokaw sat talking to a group of retired military officers when the voice of a woman came over the air. Amid all the astonishing satellite gadgetry, she was using a 125-year-old technology called a telephone. Nancy Chamberlin's son, Marine Maj. Jay Aubin, had been killed in action in southern Iraq. Now the grieving mother had a wrenching message for the media. "I truly admire what all the new technology can do," she said politely. "But for the mothers and wives out there watching, it is murder. It is heartbreaking. We can't leave the television for a moment because we might see our sons or husbands... The technology is great, but there are moms, there are wives―and they are suffering."
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