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Photos of flag drapped caskets leaked to internet

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Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-04-22 13:26|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anyone think this is going to play the way the left wants it to?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-22 1:59:03 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-22 1:59:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Any guesses on WHO released the photos? My guess is Kerry and his cohorts. Has anyone seen Hanoi Jane lately?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-04-22 2:02:51 PM|| 2004-04-22 2:02:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think these photos are going to bounce exactly the wrong way the Left wants, Robert. Though they'll try their damnedest to make it work for them.

Posted by Jack Deth 2004-04-22 2:38:21 PM|| 2004-04-22 2:38:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I would like to see some bloggers start to repost Sept 11 pictures to go alongside the flagged draped coffin pictures in the public zietgiest (Did I spell or even use that correctly?).

Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-22 3:36:54 PM|| 2004-04-22 3:36:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Woman loses her job over coffins photo

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001909527_coffin22m.html

A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday's edition of The Seattle Times.

Posted by Anonymous4021 2004-04-22 3:37:29 PM|| 2004-04-22 3:37:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 My eyes actually teared up as I viewed these photos. They are tears of pride for our soldiers who have sacrificed themselves for us and the Iraqi people. They are also tears of rage at the LLL asshats who attempt to exploit the lives and deaths of true patriots for political gain. And like every other snarky attempt by the left to score political points of the most disturbing and morbid type, it will fail miserably.

Posted by spiffo 2004-04-22 3:41:48 PM|| 2004-04-22 3:41:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The picture does not make me more sad / angry - the "numbers" in the news already equated to coffins. The simpering reality-challenged Lefties are the only ones who require pictures to make them real. Additionally, they are the only ones who need to be reminded at whom they should direct their outrage, be it feigned or real. Fucking morons.

The craven cretins who endeavor to score political points from death, whether tragic or heroic, deserve eternity in Dante's 9th Ring of Hell - reserved for the treacherous. They are unredeemable offal.

Posted by .com 2004-04-22 4:01:57 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:01:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Silicio said she never sought to put herself in the public spotlight. Instead, she said, she hoped the publication of the photo would help families of fallen soldiers understand the care and devotion that civilians and military crews dedicate to the task of returning the soldiers home.

"It wasn't my intent to lose my job or become famous or anything," Silicio said.

So she publishes them in the farking NEWSPAPER - who then SPASHED IT ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE SUNDAY PAPER????

Here is a
PDF of the front page of the Seattle Times for that date.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-04-22 4:04:24 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:04:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Double what .com said.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-22 4:09:50 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:09:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Definitely not going to get a 'Viet Nam' response in viewing these photos. I knew the military took great care in shipping them home. I didn't need to see a picture.

I want to find out how she got that job. I know several reliable, discreet folks who'd like that type of work.

Posted by Monica S. 2004-04-22 4:19:53 PM|| 2004-04-22 4:19:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I hate the secrecy of bringing the dead home. It should be something of a ceremony. The Challenger crew were brought home in the dead of night on a barge.... it was very strange.

Posted by Shipman 2004-04-22 6:06:57 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:06:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Silicio can't have taken all the pictures that Drudge has up. Some of them clearly aren't in Kuwait, and many of them could not possibly have been taken without everyone in them knowing. So who took them, and why?

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-04-22 6:08:54 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-04-22 6:08:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Angie, from what I understand, once the first photo went public some group used the Freedom of Information act to get access to all of the photos. I'm not sure why the military took the photos in the first place, possibly for historical purposes.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-04-22 6:19:43 PM|| 2004-04-22 6:19:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Woman loses her job over coffins photo

And her husband too. I'm sure the families of those we lost would like to have a nice long chat with Tami in a back room somewhere.

U.S. Contractor Fired for Military Coffin Photo

Thu Apr 22, 2004 07:54 PM ET

By Sue Pleming

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. contractor and her husband have been fired after her photograph of 20 flag-draped coffins of American troops going home from Iraq was published in violation of military rules.

"I lost my job and they let my husband go as well," Tami Silicio, who loaded U.S. military cargo at Kuwait International Airport for a U.S. company, told Reuters in an e-mail response to questions.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-22 8:20:57 PM|| 2004-04-22 8:20:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 my god rest thier souls. i just thank god we have such brave men and women.

if the media runs with this it would truly be despicable - espeicailly since they chose to censor the graphic pictures of 9-11 victims.

god bless america

Posted by Dan 2004-04-22 8:48:54 PM|| 2004-04-22 8:48:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Shipman, you are right Americans should be allowed to venerate those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. The press blackout came into effect when caskets were returned to the states during GW I and CNN used them to make a political statement. GHW Bush was giving a press briefing in which a few jokes were made like Rumsfeld's briefing. CNN split the screen and televised caskets being offloaded with the press conference. Evidently it was a true al Jizeera moment.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-22 9:19:15 PM|| 2004-04-22 9:19:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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