Flag-draped transparency
Posted: February 26th, 2009 | Author: Laura | Filed under: politically charged | Tags: flag-draped coffin, freedom of press, iraq, press, soldiers, war | 1 Comment »Since 2003, at least 4,251 flag-draped coffins have arrived from Iraq. Since 2001, at least 584 have come home from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan.
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Today Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to announce that news photographers will be able to capture these tragic homecomings. Soldiers who come home in the ultimate defeat will no longer be hidden from the public eye. However, the photographs may only be taken if the family of the deceased comply.
Critics of the Pentagon’s old policy said the government was trying to hide the human cost for our wars abroad; is that really the case?
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