Photographs Then and Now Show True Picture of the Nature of War

Augusta Chronicle, The › May 06, 2004

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There was a time when the Pentagon worried about passing a national exam on war. It was called the Dover test. Any decision to go to war had to take into account how long the public would tolerate pictures of coffins coming back through Dover Air Force Base.

Not anymore. Now we just ban the pictures.

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Photographs Then and Now Show True Picture of the Nature of War

This ban came back into public notice after the Air Force mistakenly released photos of flag-draped coffins which ended up on a Web site called The Memory Hole. A few days earlier, the Maytag Aircraft Corp. fired ...

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