Some Republicans say it would take up too much of the president's time to attend military funerals or meet the coffins returning from Iraq.

The Pentagon has sent out emphatic reminders that television and photographic coverage is not allowed of coffins returning to Dover Air Force Base.

THE Pentagon's banning of news media photographs of coffins returning from Iraq reminds us that photography plays a pivotal role in a crucial arena of modern war: public relations.

The administration's enforcement of a prohibition on photographs of coffins returning from Iraq was the first policy manifestation of the hide-the-carnage strategy.

The Pentagon banned press coverage of the flag-draped coffins returning home from Iraq.

Not only should we be able to see coffins returning to the United States, but we should also not be denied access to the war.

But the bizarre demand, a creepy echo of the ban on news media coverage of the coffins returning from Iraq, is simply the latest spasm of a gutted federal agency.

When this war began, the government attempted to manage images by banning photographs of coffins returning to United States soil.

He took all the civil service examinations, after his father, a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, took him to Grand Central Terminal to see coffins returning from Vietnam.

Somewhere it has been decided that the public's tender eyes must be shielded from the sight of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq.