Well the Department of Defense caves to pressure. I really disagree with this, period -- maybe if the families want to release photos, OK, but they and they alone should be allowed to make that choice -- certainly not the ghoulish media.
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department, under pressure from open-government advocates, released hundreds of images Thursday of flag-draped coffins of American soldiers.
The department had previously refused to release such images, which were taken by military photographers. Nor has it allowed the news media to photograph ceremonies of soldiers’ coffins arriving in the United States, saying it is enforcing a policy installed in 1991 to respect the privacy of families of dead soldiers.
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