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Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Oct 21, 2003 03:20pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.
To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases.
In March, on the eve of the Iraq war, a directive arrived from the Pentagon at U.S. military bases. "There will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel returning to or departing from Ramstein [Germany] airbase or Dover [Del.] base, to include interim stops," the Defense Department said, referring to the major ports for the returning remains.
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