First Photos of Fallen Soldier Ends Era

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Air Force Will Allow Media to Cover Arrival of Airman Killed in Afghanistan

For the first time since the Obama administration reversed an 18-year-old ban on news coverage of returning fallen soldiers, the Air Force will allow media to cover the arrival tonight of an airman killed in Afghanistan.

The remains of Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers, a 30-year-old supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, are expected to be returned to Delaware's Dover Air Force Base at 11 p.m. today. Under the new policy, his family was given the option of whether to admit the media and they chose to let news media cover the dignified transfer.

Myers, from Hopewell, Va., died April 4 of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device, the Air Force said in a statement. He was assigned to the 48th Civil Engineer Squadron, with the Royal Air Force Lakenheath, U.K., and three weeks ago received the Bronze Star for valor.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7264089&page=1


Lt. Gen. Robert D. Bishop Jr., 3rd Air Force commander, presents Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, 48th Civil Engineer Squadron, with a Bronze Star medal during an Airmen's Call March 19 at RAF Lakenheath, England. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Perry Aston)


US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 601

-- As of Sunday, April 5, 2009, at least 601 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.

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1. Thank you Bigtree. n/t

[Muttocracy]

2. K&R. nt

[PearliePoo2]

3. Damnit! Look at his face...it is so sweet and kind.

I'll never ever forgive the bastards that sent these fine troops into Iraq FOR NOTHING.
Edit: this troop was not killed in Iraq.

[JohnnyLib2]

4. K & R with thanks

and sorrow for that family.

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5. kick

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7. A Coffin, a Flag, a Photograph

April 5, 2009, 11:58 pm
New York Times
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/a-coffin-a-flag-a-photograph/?ref=world

[derby378]

8. It's about damn time

Glad the Obama administration finally got around to this.