Alert! Every politician that wants to talk about the USA inappropriately staying in Afghanistan, in the next breath talk about the poor veterans coming home without adequate medical care.
And don't forget, we as Americans can now witness the dead in flag draped coffins now.
I think President Obama has only been at Dover once. Maybe his memory is fading. He and the next President should make it their business to be in Dover EVERY TIME a C-10 lands with America's dead.
And don't forget, we as Americans can now witness the dead in flag draped coffins now.
I think President Obama has only been at Dover once. Maybe his memory is fading. He and the next President should make it their business to be in Dover EVERY TIME a C-10 lands with America's dead.
Washington - In
a reversal of an 18-year-old military policy that critics said was
hiding the ultimate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the news
media will now be allowed to photograph the flag-draped coffins of
America's war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States,
but only if the families of the dead agree.
The
decision, which Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Thursday,
lifts a 1991 blanket ban on such photographs put in place under
President George Bush. It chiefly affects coffins arriving from Iraq and
Afghanistan that go through Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
"I
think that foremost in our thinking about issues like this should be
the families and giving them choices," Gates said at a news conference
at the Pentagon.
Renewed
as recently as a year ago by the administration of President George W.
Bush, the ban has long been a source of intense debate....
