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*Blaine Harden and Dana Milbank, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34864-2004Apr22.html "Photos of Soldiers' Coffins Revive Controversy,"] ''Washington Post'', April 23, 2004.
*Caroline Overington, [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/23/1082616327044.html "Photos released in error,"] ''The Age'' (Australia), April 24, 2004: "The US Air Force released 361 photographs of the flag-draped coffins of American soldiers to an internet website yesterday, angering the Pentagon. ... The photographs - which Department of Defence photographers took at an air force base that doubles as a soldiers' mortuary in Dover, Delaware - were apparently released in error to a website called [http://www.thememoryhole.com The Memory Hole]. ... Media organisations across the US, which are banned from taking similar photographs - quickly picked up the photographs. ... Several US newspapers were planning to use the images - mostly of coffins containing the remains of soldiers killed in Iraq - on their front pages."
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*Gene Johnson, [http://www.suntimes.com/output/iraq/cst-nws-photo23.html "Cargo worker fired over photo of soldiers' flag-draped coffins,"] ''Chicago Sun-Times'', April 23, 2004: "Maytag Aircraft Corp. fired Tami Silicio, 50, and her husband, David Landry, because they 'violated Department of Defense and company policies by working together' to take and publish the photograph, company president William Silva said in a news release Thursday. ... The firing was first reported Thursday in the ''Seattle Times'', which published the April 7 photo on Sunday. ... The picture shows several workers inside a cargo plane parked at Kuwait International Airport securing 20 flag-draped coffins for the trip to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Silicio, who took the picture, told the newspaper she hoped it would portray the care and devotion with which civilian and military crews treat the remains of fallen soldiers."
*Hal Bernton and Ray Rivera, [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001910594_pentagon23m.html "Air Force adds to controversy with its own coffin photos,"] ''Seattle Times'', April 23, 2004: "The week before Kuwait cargo worker Tami Silicio lost her job for releasing a photograph of soldiers' coffins, the Air Force made its own release of several hundred photographs of flag-draped coffins to the operator of an Internet site. ... The Air Force photos were shot by personnel at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and released -- reluctantly -- in response to a [[Freedom of Information Act]] request submitted by a 34-year-old First Amendment activist. ... Release of the more than 360 photographs further erodes a 13-year-old ban on the [[media]] taking photos of the transport of coffins from overseas battle zones to Dover, site of the military's largest mortuary."
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