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Pentagon Reverses Coffin Photo Ban

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to allow photos of flag-draped caskets at Dover Air Force Base, Del., if the families of the fallen troops agree. (Feb. 26)

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  • As long as the family gets a say, that's great.

  • Nothing much changed really. Instead of the Pentagon making the decision to deny photographs of returning coffins, it will now be up to the families of those who died. Would you want your family members coffin to be photographed for propaganda purposes?

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  • so sorry for your loss bro and thankful for your sacrifice.

    totally agree on this point

  • This is not honoring our fallen veterans. They are honored during their funerals and in their hometowns and the media is always welcome then...to show a bunch of nameless faceless coffins returning home does no honor....you don't even know who they are. 99% of active military members are against this...I should know I am one. My unit lost 48 members...most in the war. A guy I went to high school died in this war B.P. Montgomery in Aug. 2005. His widow and the other families are against this

  • wow you are retarded

  • Cindy Sheehan would.

  • You want to wake up? You want to know the truth?????

    Google "Zeitgeist. "

    Watch the movies.

    Live & learn.

    You Want to DO SOMETHING about it?

    Google: "Orion Project Fax", and let your leaders know about free energy investment !!!

  • NOBAMA that is.

  • No matter which side you come down on. Nothing changed.

  • Agreed. However think of it another way.

    When the first Bush enacted the ban, it was also a propaganda move. By not seeing the coffins at the time of Dessert Storm, as a people, we became psychologically removed from the atrocities of war. In fact, there was less descention to the war. During Veitman, we saw, for the first time on TV, some up-close and personal images of death from the war. It fueled the counter culture and the anti-war movement.

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