picture of the year----US solders drapped coffins

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2004/1226/poy02_mx2004.html










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.

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1. Tami Silicio still doesn't have a job but she sure made history.

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2. nice tribute by the Seattle Times:-)

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3. We can see Indonesian children with rigormortis but not this?

I just saw the MSNBC poll re: whether the US had helped enough. 62% say yes, the US has done enough. $5 billion a month is spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, and $350 million after intense world pressure is the best the US can do.

That should put to rest, once and for all, one of the US's greatest myths, about being the world's greatest contributor. In terms of military weapons, yes, the US tops the list, but it ranks well below Japan and Western Europe in terms of humanitarian aid.