And if you ever get a war without any gore, I’ll be the first to go
Friday, April 23rd, 2004Tami Silicio, a Kuwait cargo worker, has lost her job for releasing a photograph of flag-draped coffins, in violation of a Pentagon policy that bans photography of military coffins. The military insists that the policy is in keeping with the wishes of the grieving families, and has nothing at all to do with keeping the human cost of war out of the public eye.
Meanwhile, the Air Force has released more than 360 photographs of exactly the same subject matter, but only when forced to do so by a Freedom of Information Act request from Russ Kick, described as a First Amendment activist, who runs http://www.thememoryhole.org.
