Documenting the Human Cost

Dan Weiss bio ↓ · April 17th, 2009 · filed under politics

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In 1991 the first President Bush signed a law making it illegal for the media to document the return of fallen US Soldiers. This law remained in effect until shortly after Obama’s swearing in. Big Picture offers a photo essay on the once familiar yet long ignored images of flag draped coffins.

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Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays songs about dinosaurs, the end of the world, and how girls don't like him, with the band The Yellow Dress. More from this author →

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