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Originally posted by Peaches
I know if my son was killed there I wouldn't want views of his casket as a media event. That's a private thing for most families and those who wish to make it public can choose to invite the media to the funeral and show the casket(s) as much as they want.
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The coffins are all identical. There are no name tags showing and they are all draped with identical flags. There is no way to tell any individual coffin from another in photographs. But photographs of so many flag-draped coffins reduce support for war. They learned that lesson from Viet Nam.