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February 26, 2009
Pentagon Agrees to Allow Photographs of Soldiers' Coffins at Dover AFB If Family Members Agree
The New York Times reports that Secretary of Defense Gates announced today that the military will lift the ban on photographing the coffins of soldiers as they arrive at Dover AFB. However, the family members of the returning soldiers will be given an opportunity to object and,if they do so, photographs will not be permitted. An earlier TImes piece offered a sample of military family members' reactions to the possible lifting of the ban. Details about how Canada and Great Britain have handled the return of their war dead were presented in the Times Sunday Week in Review.
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