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Tami Silicio, A Maytag Aircraft cargo worker, took pictures of US soldier coffins returning from Iraq. Silicio said she wanted to show the care and dignity of the process with her pictures. She forwarded a single image to the Seattle Times, where it was run on their front page. Subsequently, Memory Hole.com filed a Freedom of Information request and eventually received, perhaps by mistake, 288 photos which they immediately released on the web. Silicio was fired by her employer in response to the Pentagon's policy banning pictures of coffins being returned to the US.
Senate Backs Ban on Photos of G.I. Coffins: June 21, 2004
"he Bush administration's policy of barring news photographs of the flag-covered coffins of service members killed in Iraq won the backing of the Republican-controlled Senate on Monday, when lawmakers defeated a Democratic measure to instruct the Pentagon to allow pictures. [...] "These caskets that arrive at Dover are not named; we just see them," said Mr. McCain, a former Navy pilot who was a prisoner of war for five years in Vietnam. He added, "I think we ought to know the casualties of war." But President Bush has insisted that the policy banning the photography protects the privacy of the families of the dead, a view reiterated by lawmakers who opposed the measure. Some Republicans, including Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, complained that Democrats were trying to score election-year points with the effort. [...] In March 2003, just as the United States embarked on its war with Iraq, the Pentagon issued a directive stating that there would be no news coverage of "deceased military personnel returning to or departing from" air bases."
[New York Times]
288 photos of war dead published by The Memory Hole under the Freedom of Information Act
[Photos of war dead taken at Dover AFB]
The first request by Memory Hole was turned down by the Air Force. This letter from the Army outlines their rationale:
"We removed all personally identifying information of the remains as release could rekindle grief, anguish, pain, embarrassment, or disrupt the peace of mind of surviving family members, thus invading their privacy...Release would jeopardize the safety of personnel assigned as well as constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
[Letter signed by Col. Laurel Warish, USAF]
Ultimately the request was granted and the pictures were pubished online.
The Seattle Times front page with Dover coffin photo: Hal Bernton: "The Somber Task of Honoring the Fallen" : April 27, 2004
"Since the 1991 Gulf War, photographs of coffins as they return to the United States have been tightly restricted. And few such photographs have been published during the conflict in Iraq. On the April day depicted in the photograph that accompanies this story, more than 20 coffins went into a cargo plane bound for Germany. Silicio says those who lost loved ones in Iraq should understand the care and devotion that civilians and military crews dedicate to the task of returning the soldiers home. Silicio says she shares her motto, "Purpose and Cause," with colleagues who appear worn down from the job: "We serve a purpose and we have a cause — that's what living life is all about.""
[Seattle Times]
Commentary from Dana Milbank in the Washington Post: October 21, 2003
"Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets. To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases. In March, on the eve of the Iraq war, a directive arrived from the Pentagon at U.S. military bases. "There will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel returning to or departing from Ramstein [Germany] airbase or Dover [Del.] base, to include interim stops," the Defense Department said, referring to the major ports for the returning remains.
A Pentagon spokeswoman said the military-wide policy actually dates from about November 2000 -- the last days of the Clinton administration -- but it apparently went unheeded and unenforced, as images of caskets returning from the Afghanistan war appeared on television broadcasts and in newspapers until early this year [2003]. Though Dover Air Force Base, which has the military's largest mortuary, has had restrictions for 12 years, others "may not have been familiar with the policy," the spokeswoman said. This year, "we've really tried to enforce it.""
[Washington Post]
After Dover: Military affirms ban on photographing coffins
"U.S. military officials at Ramstein, a major air base used as a transfer point, said the Department of Defense re-affirmed a ban on television crews and photographers from filming flag- draped coffins, although coverage of the wounded is permitted. "The policy states we do it out of respect to the families. There have been some instances where we did (allow access), but we're not going to do it again.""
[Reuters—via Gio Messner]
Pentagon Imposes New Rules Restricting Coverage of Military Funerals: Nov. 14, 2004
"The new guidelines state that "reporters are no longer permitted to stand at the rear of the mourners during the service," and microphones "are not permitted … anywhere near the grave site." The Pentagon says it is merely trying to protect the privacy of the families of the fallen soldiers. But the new rules have some reporters wondering whether it is just the latest move by the Bush administration to limit coverage of casualties of the war in Iraq. [...] Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton refers to something he calls the "Dover test." This is how he described it in a 2000 speech at Harvard University: "Is the American public prepared for the sight of our most precious resource coming home in flag-draped caskets into Dover Air Force Base in Delaware?" If not, he cautioned, the war should probably not be fought."
[ABC News—via Gio Messner]
Mother Allows Photos Of Solidier's Coffin To Protest Ban: June 28, 2004
"The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq summoned news outlets to photograph her son's flag-draped casket arriving at Sacramento International Airport to protest a Pentagon policy banning media coverage of America's war dead. [...] Sunday night's brief ceremony, however, did not violate the policy because it applies only to military facilities. The airport and the California National Guard worked Sunday to arrange the event."
[NBC]
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