Documenting the Human Cost

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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 in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.

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