"Jim" wrote in message

......policy that banned
reporters from photographing flag-draped caskets of soldiers killed in
combat .


..... an image of "firefighters carrying a flag-draped
body" from the 9/11 wreckage at Ground Zero .

A photo of an attack 2-1/2 years ago, and a photo of the coffin of a soldier
killed last week are two very different things. I can see the difference,
and I'm sure you can, too -- should you care to admit it.

The avoidance of news images of dead US soldiers is not at all new, much as
you'd love to blame it on the President. In WW-II, I believe it was some
time in late 1943 before any image at all of a killed GI was shown in a US
newspaper.