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The photo that stirred a nation

A powerful photograph of more than 20 flag-draped coffins of soldiers who died in Iraq, their caskets carefully tended inside a cargo plane bound for home, first stirred a community, then a nation.

A week after the picture appeared in The Seattle Times, the reasonable request is for the Pentagon to revise a policy that prohibits the media from taking such pictures.

This newspaper acquired the picture from Tami Silicio, who was subsequently fired from her job with a military contractor. Under current policy, the media lack access to the location depicted in the photograph and could acquire it only from someone in a unique position to snap it. Publishing the photo was not an issue, taking it is.

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