The Politics of Time
April 22, 2004
11 Comments

Mom, We're Home!*

Amazingly, The Memory Hole has managed, through the Freedom of Information Act, to get photos of military coffins at Dover Air Force Base:

I specified Dover because they process the remains of most, if not all, US military personnel killed overseas. Not surpisingly, my request was completely rejected. Not taking 'no' for an answer, I appealed on several grounds, and—to my amazement—the ruling was reversed. The Air Force then sent me a CD containing 361 photographs of flag-draped coffins and the services welcoming the deceased soldiers.
(Thanks, Reeves, for this. Incidentally ladies, the guestblogging gig hasn't gotten him all that extra poon I promised. Who's gonna ante up?)

*Ring a bell?

Posted by Dana at 09:47 AM

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May I be the first person to say that it's about fucking time.

For someone who claims to respect to sacrifices of our fighting men and women, Bush seems awful eager to hide the reality of it.

Posted by: jonmc at April 22, 2004 10:01 AM

these pics make me all weepy and shit. goddamnit.

Posted by: reeves-seriously at April 22, 2004 10:38 AM

And I thought my Negroponte picture was depressing.... That gallery is heartbreaker.

Posted by: russell at April 22, 2004 11:08 AM

that republican boytoy drudge is making it his dumb-flashing-police-light story of the day. hey, it only matters when matty-matt says it does...

Posted by: reeves-angry at April 22, 2004 12:00 PM

the photographer got fired...
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0422-04.htm

Posted by: S.o.G.L. at April 22, 2004 03:03 PM

Different photographer, actually. She was a private contractor.

Posted by: dana at April 23, 2004 09:31 AM

No no, she and her her husband got fired, I heard it on the news this morning WBAI at 9AM

Posted by: S.o.G.L. at April 23, 2004 10:05 AM

I'm telling you, that woman photographed the coffins in Iraq and sent them to the Seattle paper. The photographer who took the Dover photos was a government contractor.

Posted by: dana at April 23, 2004 10:08 AM

Argh! you-know-all see:

[...]This past Sunday the Seattle Times ran a photo of caskets that were taken in Kuwait by an employee of the military contractor Maytag Aircraft. The worker who took the photo and her husband have since been fired after the Pentagon complained to Maytag. [...]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/23/1448244http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/23/1448244

Posted by: S.o.G.L. at April 23, 2004 02:47 PM

"You keep saying this word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Posted by: dana at April 23, 2004 03:05 PM

Now I am confused.
are you talking to me?
what word? why quotes?
what did I said ? what did I think!?
I am going home!
ahhr

Posted by: S.o.G.L. at April 23, 2004 03:43 PM