Editor's Note: These photos disappeared from the Front Page of Axis of Logic this morning. We have no explanation for how that may have happened. Some of them are currently published on the front pages of newspapers across the U.S. and around the world. Memory Hole is the original source for the first photograph. Memory Hole currently cannot be accessed. They have a mirror site wth more photos like the first one below. It may be due to the heavy volume of traffic resulting from today's widespread posting of their photographs on other websites and in America's Newspapers. Today, the NYT published an article which has been also posted on Axis of Logic. In it they stated:
"The Web site, the Memory Hole (www.thememoryhole.org), had filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year, seeking any pictures of coffins arriving from Iraq at the Dover base in Delaware, the destination for most of the bodies. The Pentagon yesterday labeled the Air Force Air Mobility Command's decision to grant the request a mistake, but news organizations quickly used a selection of the 361 images taken by Defense Department photographers."
We now republish the photographs below. - Les Blough
Dover Air Force Base: Mortuary Procedures
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The Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is home to the Defense Department's largest mortuary and the world's largest port mortuary. It handles most, if not all, military personnel killed overseas. At the top of the page is a link to an Acrobat file containing nine Standard Operation Procedures covering the Dover mortuary. Above and below are a few interesting passages clipped from the documents. Links: Globalsecurity.org page on Dover AFB Technical note: I received these documents (paper versions) through Freedom of Information Act request #2004-077 to the Department of the Air Force, Headquarters Air Mobility Command. I sent the request on 06 Nov 2003 and received the manual on 23 Jan 2004. |
| From the Memory Hole |
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| U.S. Military Men and Women Coming Home |
From Other Sources -
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| A Few of the Many |
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| Funeral of a U.S. Helicopter Soldier killed with 17 Others |