Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced today he is lifting a 1991 ban on news coverage of the return of the remains of fallen service members to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and will let families decide whether to allow coverage.
The controversial ban on photography and other media coverage of the solemn return of flag-draped coffins -- upheld by both Republican and Democratic administrations -- has generated lawsuits as well as conflicting emotions on the part of military families.
"After receiving input from a number of sources, including all of the military services and the organizations representing military families, I have decided that the decision regarding media coverage of the dignified transfer process at Dover should be made by those most directly affected: on an individual basis by the families of the fallen," Gates told reporters at a briefing at the Pentagon this afternoon. "We ought not presume to make that decision in their place."
Gates said he is asking a group of advisers to come up with a plan on how to implement the new policy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022602084.html
GW, OBama and Gates are America hating leftists. It's very simple. Just talk it over with your think tank. You guys can pretty much solve all ambiguities with "they are leftist, America hating, terrorist loving, pinko faggot, socialists". Issue solved yet again.
, some families would and some wouldn't.
