The Pentagon said Thursday it was easing the ban on photographing flag-draped coffins of dead soldiers arriving home from the battlefield.
The 18-year-old ban of taking photos of coffins returning to the United States was designed to protect the privacy of grieving families. But it also censored and sanitized a byproduct of war.
Dead bodies are already littering television, the media and the internet. Do we need to see more?
What do you think?
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