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To: Road Walker who wrote (231104)	4/29/2005 1:47:09 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583668

I saw this yesterday...the sad thing is that dying soldiers barely makes the news anymore. The wingnuts have won this battle...America is too busy worrying about gas prices and the SOBs have been able to change the subject to comatose brain dead people, judges, religious fervor, and social security. May it pass quickly. Al

To: Road Walker who wrote (231104)	4/29/2005 4:17:27 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583668

The pictures, taken by military photographers, were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by Ralph J. Begleiter, a University of Delaware professor and former CNN correspondent, who sought all photos of the caskets of soldiers who died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Finally. The release reversed a policy that critics said had allowed Pentagon managers to conceal the reality of hundreds of coffins arriving home in U.S. military cargo planes. The Defense Department made the photos public with few dates or locations and little context, making it unclear whether the individuals in any of the hundreds of pictures died in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere. The faces of soldiers accompanying the coffins were blacked out. Buttholes! ted