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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.
*Bill Carter, [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/national/23PHOT.html? "Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken,"] ''New York Times'', April 23, 2004: "The Pentagon's ban on making images of dead soldiers' homecomings at military bases public was briefly relaxed yesterday, as hundreds of photographs of flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base were released on the Internet by a Web site dedicated to combating government secrecy. ... The Web site, the Memory Hole (www.thememoryhole.org), had filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year, seeking any pictures of coffins arriving from Iraq at the Dover base in Delaware, the destination for most of the bodies. The Pentagon yesterday labeled the Air Force Air Mobility Command's decision to grant the request a mistake, but news organizations quickly used a selection of the 361 images taken by Defense Department photographers."
'''NOTE: NYT runs 3 pics of an estimated 361 photos of the coffins.'''
*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.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.]
=== Fallout ===
*Randal Chase, [http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/lateststories/index.ssf?/base/politics-3/108272246226810.xml "Bush: Privacy of families outweighs photos,"] AP, April 23, 2004: "'Quite frankly, we don't want the remains of our service members who have made the ultimate sacrifice to be the subject of any kind of attention that is unwarranted or undignified,' said John Molino, a deputy undersecretary of defense."
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3652171.stm "US concern over war dead photos,"] BBC/UK, April 23, 2004: "Pentagon lawyers are examining the release of photographs of the coffins of dead American soldiers repatriated from Iraq."
*Anne E. Kornblut and Bryan Bender, [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/24/pentagon_to_review_photo_ban/ "Pentagon to review photo ban. More debate over images of US coffins,"] ''Boston Globe'', April 24, 2004.
