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Coffins
Flag-draped coffins of US war casualties are seen aboard a cargo plane in Dover, Delaware

Coffins



Area: Philadelphia

In this rendering, date unknown, made by the US Department of Defense and obtained by thememoryhole.org, flag-draped coffins of U.S .war casualties are seen aboard a cargo plane in Dover, Del. President Barack Obama said Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, his administration is reviewing a policy that bans the media from photographing flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers. The president says his advisers are discussing with the Defense Department the prohibition on pictures of coffins returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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