Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins
So, tell me why a President can be so insecure about his own position, that he denies honors to those who have died in service of our country? What a surprise that he'd lose public support for an occupation that never had a plan or an endpoint in sight?
Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.
To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases. [Washington Post: Nation and Politics]