Soldier Coffins

Christian Century, May 18, 2004

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Caption: SOLDIER COFFINS: Coffins of U.S. military personnel are prepared to be offloaded at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, in this undated photo. The U.S. Air Force, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, released to Web site http://www.the memoryhole.org on April 14 more than 300 photographs showing the remains of U.S. service members returning home. The Pentagon tightly restricts publication of photographs of coffins with the remains of U.S. troops and has forbidden journalists from taking pictures at the Dover base, the first stop for the bodies of troops being sent home.