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[taerowyn]

Pictures truly are worth a thousand words.

I can't not touch on this. I've been following the controversy a bit.

"We must pay attention to the privacy of the families. That's what the policy is based on," White House spokesman Trent Duffy told reporters, describing that as "our first priority."

I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to buy that. There is no personal identifiers, where is the invasion of privcacy?

"Quite frankly, we don't want the remains of our service members who have made the ultimate sacrifice to be the subject of any kind of attention that is unwarranted or undignified."

I think it's amazing to see these images. I think the attention is totally warranted - these men and women died for their country. A country which, thanks to these images, can actually see them receiving all the respect and ceremony that they deserve. I don't think you get much more dignified than that.

Here's yet another "thousand words", though the caption is wrong according to a later entry...it's not just US soldiers, but from the whole coalition including the UK, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Poland, Spain, and more. I think that actually makes it more poignant.

***Edit***
OK, so the pictures are worth a thousand "different" words. Or, technically, two thousand words since some of the images are NASA while others are soldiers (once the honor guard is in camos vs. dress, I assume). The point behind the whole controversy still stands despite the mix-up.

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Only the first set is (about the first eighteen rows), but once the images include an honor guard of people in camos vs. dress uniform they apparently are still the pictures of the soldiers as opposed to the Columbia crew.