Mother Encourages Photos of Coffin

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To protest Pentagon policy, Nadia McCaffrey invites the media to disseminate images of her slain son's return from Iraq.

by Regine Labossiere and Eric Slater

SACRAMENTO — The mother of a soldier killed last week in Iraq planned to openly challenge the Pentagon on Sunday night by not only allowing the media to take pictures and video as her son's coffin arrived at Sacramento International Airport, but by encouraging outlets to publish and distribute the images.

"I don't care what wants," Nadia McCaffrey said of the administration's policy that bans on-base photographing of coffins returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

She planned to hold a short ceremony in front of reporters and photographers inside a Delta Airlines cargo terminal at the airport shortly before Flight 1583 was scheduled to arrive from Atlanta at midnight with the body of her son, National Guard Spc. Patrick McCaffrey, 34.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0628-05.htm

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1. EVERYBODY ! READ THIS ARTICLE

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2. Yes, it's an important one.

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3. Bless this mother

for her bravery. The loss of her son is too sad. I commend her for her actions.