A gallery of 289 photographs of war dead at Dover Air Force Base has been made available
by The Memory Hole. Click on the photo above to access the gallery. Take a few minutes to browse the photos, in memoriam for the sons and daughters who have been killed in Iraq.
 The front page of last Sunday’s Seattle Times. |
Following from a Freedom of Information Act request, the U.S. Air Force released 289 photographs of the flag-draped coffins of American soldiers to The Memory Hole website yesterday (photos 72 through 361). As of this writing, all photos have been verified as those of soldiers who have died during the war in Iraq.
Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose haunting photograph (above) of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published on the front page of last Sunday’s edition of The Seattle Times (left), alerted Memory Hole editor Russ Kick to the existence of the photos. While Mr. Kick set about to gain access to and publish the photos, Ms. Silicio was fired by Maytag Aircraft “for violating U.S. government and company regulations,” in supplying the photo to The Times (watch this video for background and commentary).
As of this writing, 709 members of the American Armed Forces have lost their lives in Iraq — along with hundreds more foreign soldiers and civilians. Thousands upon thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives. Thousands more Americans have been wounded — many losing limbs.
“This is a war of images and a war of ideas, and I think the administration and the Pentagon are reluctant to give the other side what they want,” Max Boot, of the Council on Foreign Affairs, told NBC News last night.
