The type of image Americans are no longer permitted to see in mainstream media.
Curtains ordered for media coverage of returning coffins
Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.
To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases.
[Also: Reasons 'Dubya' has avoided attending a military funeral.]
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