Pictures that the Military didn't want you to see

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Pictures of flag draped coffins returning to Dover AFB. Military regs now forbid taking pictures of such procedures by other than military historians. However, they were ordered to release them on CD under the freedom of information act.

There is some credible justification for the regulation, to protect families, etc., but it is on the other hand kinda sneaky.

Me, I think they ought to all be honored up front throughout the process.
 
Thanks, Rusty. We should know the cost.


I remember when I was growing up watching the Vietnam war on TV while eating dinner. I remember the body counts, too many of our people, and always quick to list the estimate of enemy dead- usually 5 times our own.

It's hard to say what is right. There's a balance between dignity and numbness.

Rusty- I'm getting; "this page cannot be displayed." Did the site just go down?
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Rusty said:
Go to www.thememoryhole.org
Me, I think they ought to all be honored up front throughout the process.
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I agree. Has that always been the policy or is it just a recent thing to try to keep people from thinking about the fact that people die.

Also to honor the just regular people over there that accidentally got killed cause they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's the bad thing about a guerilla war.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
 
It seems to be back up now.

Headline news is reporting the story, so it may be the site is getting overloaded.
 
Rusty said:
It seems to be back up now.

Headline news is reporting the story, so it may be the site is getting overloaded.
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Wouldn't be surprised if that site got overloaded.

They tend to have a lot of stuff that gets called back because it could/has turn(ed) hot, I think that they may still have images from the infamous terrorism futures market that was floated, for example.
 
I think I read that so far 700 of our brave troops have given their life in Iraq.

At the height of the Viet Nam war, we were losing 500 per week. Over 58,000 gave all in that shlthole. I remember, as a young Marine, seeing the coffins loaded into C141's at DaNang. There were so very many. It was always done at night. To avoid morale problems. I can never get that image out of my mind.
 
Bang on Rusty, I have my views on Iraq and the way things are going, but for the love of mike these guys died for their country! Their death should not be hidden and they should be honoured as they deserve to be.
 
Semper Fi said:
I think I read that so far 700 of our brave troops have given their life in Iraq.

At the height of the Viet Nam war, we were losing 500 per week. Over 58,000 gave all in that shlthole. I remember, as a young Marine, seeing the coffins loaded into C141's at DaNang. There were so very many. It was always done at night. To avoid morale problems. I can never get that image out of my mind.
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Semper,

It's a shame that they didn't have the body armor that they have these days. Think of how many guys might have been able to come home. Have you ever been to "The Wall" in DC? I went one year. I was in town for something else and just stopped by on a lark. There is a vibe around that place. Turned out to be the most moving part of my whole trip.
 
And let us never forget the POW-MIA's still to be accounted for. Those men who were abandoned by their own government.

Never forget.
 
Interestingly, it came out that the guy filing under the FOA specified all pictures after Feb 1, 2002 of ( however he worded it ). As a result, mixed in with those returned from Afghanistan and Iraq are several pictures of the space shuttle astronauts coffins.
 
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