Soldier's mom invites media coverage of casket

[Katie]

Pentagon restricts photos of coffins on military facilities
Tuesday, June 29, 2004 Posted: 1:00 PM EDT (1700 GMT)

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq invited news coverage of the arrival of her son's flag-draped casket at Sacramento International Airport.

Nearly a dozen reporters, photographers and television crews were present when the coffin of Army Sgt. Patrick McCaffrey, 34, was transferred to a hearse outside a cargo terminal late Sunday.

The scene was in stark contrast with Pentagon policy banning photographs of the coffins of dead military personnel while they are on military facilities

While she said the invitation to the media wasn't a political protest, she planned to continue speaking out against the war.

"This is enough," she told the Times. "We have to react."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/06/29/iraq.casualty.coffin.ap/index.html

additional...Bush Exploits Photo of Dead Bodies, Despite Ban (9/11 victims)
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df03052004.html

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Good!!! Americans need to see the REAL COST of this war!

[DrWho]

2. I expect little from the media

Don't care what network they are from, the media failed the US Public in every way by not asking questions leading up to the Iraq war.

They also continue to not ask questions of Bush Jr.

[Piperay]

3. It's just a shame that

the TV media didn't cover this, I know I didn't see it here in Los Angeles.