While you were sleeping.(Devil in the Details)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, December, 2003
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Those of a certain age, as they say, will recall that one of the sights of the Vietnam War that did in both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon was the image on the nightly news of the deceased American soldier's body, in a flag-draped coffin, being wheeled out of the belly of a cargo plane and onto the tarmac of the Air Force base in Dover, Del., whose grim duty has often been to act as the receiving station for the military's fallen.
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At this point you might be thinking: Funny, I haven't seen any such images during this war. Actually, it isn't funny. But it is true. And you ...
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