This is a really disappointing story. To her credit, Louise Roug does add to our understanding of the young idealist by digging up the love-story angle. But it's disappointing because making that the chief angle seems to have gotten the emphasis totally wrong. Randi Rhodes of Air America Radio, who actually knew her, gave a wonderful on-air tribute to Andi's amazing idealism, and desire to actually do something to make the world better. That should have been the emphasis of the story, as a way for future ages to remember her. Instead, the emphasis on the love story aspect really cheapens her memory--even in the story you can sense that her mission was much larger than her involvement with the male reporter. She genuinely wanted ... More »

This is a "touching" story of a pair of romantics, Americans in Iraq. It is a tragedy but surfaces the activities of a humanitarian group "trying to do good". It fails to draw the conclusion that this is just another life lost among the thousands, one we can feel for on a more personal level here, but just another.