[snugs]

Actually in this instance it was not the AP but the White House Website, I have just checked the site again because that was the photo I used as my photo of the day and I was curious why I had not indentified them.

For some reason they did not

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/images/20060831-1_g0i5627-515h.html

[silent_jonny]

not the AP but the White House Website

Well ... I guess the WH site just didn't know who they were. The caption Deb found was from a Salt Lake City site--they were probably able to talk to the Gold Star moms and properly identify them.

I'm not apologizing to the AP, though ;)

[Just A Nobody]

For some reason they did not

It may have been for privacy reasons. I imagine some/most Gold Star family members do not want to be recognized the world over. Just a thought.