picture of the year----US solders drapped coffins [View All]

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Tami Silicio

DRAPED IN DIGNITY | April 18

Flag-draped coffins are secured inside a cargo plane at Kuwait International Airport on April 7 in preparation for their return to the United States. Pentagon policy has sought to prohibit the media from taking pictures of coffins on military aircraft. This picture, published when the U.S. death toll was surging, drew international attention and renewed debate about the policy. Tami Silicio, a contract worker for the U.S. government at the time, took the picture to show the respect paid to American soldiers killed in Iraq. But Silicio was fired, as was her husband and fellow contract worker, Dave Landry.