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Connie Coyne Reader Advocate Maybe it's the remembrance of the images of flag-draped coffins in movies about World War II -- those sad scenes so often punctuated by the sound of a single bugle playing "Taps." Maybe it's the memory of the more than 55,000 coffins shipped from Vietnam to the United States during that divisive, seemingly endless undeclared war. Maybe it's the crushed posture of grieving families walking the last few feet to the graveside of a loved one lost to a war in the sands half a world away. It could be a combination of all those images...

Mike Siegal just reported that in 1999 Tammy Silisio and Amy Katz filed a lawsuit against Dick Cheney and Halliburton for "sexual harassment" because in Kosovo the company had a policy to provide seperate bathrooms, One for locals, most who were muslim, and one for Americans and others. Muslim men will not use a restroom used by a woman so Haliburton was being respectful of their faith. Katz and Salisio saw it as raciscm against the Kosovo people and filed a lawsuit. Don't know what happened to it. Also it seems these two women are radically liberally, maybe working for...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/4/23/114319.shtml Friday, Apr. 23, 2004 11:41 AM EDT GI Casket Photog Sued Cheney in 2000 A cargo handler in Kuwait fired from her job this week for photographing the caskets of GIs killed in Iraq, along with the friend who helped her get the photograph published in the Seattle Times, say their decision to go public had nothing to do with politics.But it turns out that four years ago the duo, Tami Silicio and Amy Katz.....

A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday's edition of The Seattle Times.

A cargo handler in Kuwait fired from her job this week for photographing the caskets of GIs killed in Iraq, along with the friend who helped her get the photograph published in the Seattle Times, say their decision to go public had nothing to do with politics. But it turns out that four years ago the duo, Tami Silicio and Amy Katz, sued Halliburton, then run by Vice President Dick Cheney, naming Cheney in the suit. Reports unearthed by KTTH Seattle radio host Mike Siegel reveal that Katz and Silicio, who was fired Wednesday for violating the Pentagon's policy...

A woman who was fired from her job as a cargo handler in Kuwait on Wednesday for photographing caskets of GIs killed in Iraq gave her friend the rights to the picture and the friend has retained an agent to help sell the photo. Tami Silicio, who worked for the Maytag Aircraft Corporation, took the picture on April 7 in direct violation of Pentagon rules while working for the U.S. Government at the Kuwait airport. Silicio, who is not a professional photographer, asked her friend, Amy Katz, to forward the image to The Seattle Times, whose decision to publish the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. contractor and her husband have been fired after her photograph of 20 flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers going home from Iraq was published in violation of military rules. "I lost my job and they let my husband go as well," Tami Silicio, who loaded U.S. military cargo at Kuwait International Airport for a U.S. company, told Reuters in an e-mail response to questions. The Pentagon tightly restricts publication of photographs of coffins with the remains of U.S. soldiers and has forbidden journalists from taking pictures at Dover Air Force Base, the first stop for the...

Sacked for photo Americans weren't meant to see By Caroline Overington, Herald Correspondent in New York April 23, 2004 Offending image . . . Tami Silicio's photograph of the coffins of American soldiers being secured inside a cargo plane at Kuwait airport for the trip home on the front page of The Seattle Times. Photo: The Seattle Times/AFP Last Sunday a newspaper in Seattle, Washington, published a rare photograph of soldiers' coffins, each of them containing the body of an American who had died in Iraq. The coffins, each draped with the Stars and Stripes, had been loaded into the...