I respectfully disagree with you. It's still not YOUR and the media's business to display those photos. And if you are naive enough to think that they want those pictures released for ANYTHING other than anti-American propaganda, you're badly mistaken. Unfortunately, just the fact that you've been on funeral detail doesn't give you special insight as to the proper use of these photos. And you're wrong, it's always been the policy of the US Military to not release photos of the coffins of dead American soldiers.
And if you are naive enough to think that they want those pictures released for ANYTHING other than anti-American propaganda, you're badly mistaken. That's the use of them after they're taken. We're talking about the right to publish publically-owned photos and to let photographers capture an important event. Personally, I get a chill up my spine when I see these, and have to stop for a minute to try to grasp the awesome price that soldier just paid for my freedom. I also think that could have been me in Gulf War I.
And you're wrong, it's always been the policy of the US Military to not release photos of the coffins of dead American soldiers.
This was Howard Dean's brother being fainlly brought home from Vietnam, coming off a transport plane (there were three others on this flight too).
