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*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."
*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 org 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."
[Note 4/24/04 The Memory Hole link is not working properly.]
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