Editorial: Banned images honor soldiers' homecoming
The truth hurts. We've all come to accept this as a small part of life, but we still flinch when we're confronted with it, no matter how much it may sting, because it's necessary. What's not necessary is when someone suffers for telling it.
On April 21, Kuwaiti-based military contractor Tami Silicio (along with her husband and co-worker, David Landry) was fired from her job with Maytag Aircraft over photographs of 20 coffins draped with Old Glory containing slain American soldiers that she took earlier this month at Kuwait International Airport. You've seen them, the ones that get right at your heart.
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