A moving story from The Times about West Point's graduating class of 2007. Here's the kind of problem-solving their college courses consisted of:

Today’s West Point cadets are taught how to react to surprise uprisings, often while accompanied by someone acting as an embedded television reporter. “We have a road march, and a crowd of people come in the middle of the road,” Colonel Jones said. “There’s a vehicle on the side. There’s a camera, there’s a kid with a bat, there’s a pregnant woman.”

It makes me anxious just thinking about it. Almost all of the 1,000 cadets graduating this weekend will find themselves leading units in Iraq within the next year. And 49 West Point alumni, some of them born as late as 1983, have already died in Iraq.