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caskets stories: 3 news summaries
OPINION

 In Obama's Dover Trip, 
 Echoes of Nixon 

War kept both awake; Nixon's 4am walkabout more 'heartrending'

Oct 29, 09 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s predawn trip to welcome home fallen Americans today has echoes of Richard Nixon’s 4am stroll to the Lincoln Memorial in 1970, hours before a huge anti-war protest. “What both Obama and Nixon had in common was that a war kept them awake,” Amy Davidson... More »

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Richard Nixon • Dover Air Force Base • Vietnam War • caskets • President Obama

OPINION

 Let the Coffins Be Seen 


Feb 19, 09 2:43 PM CST
(Newser) - The ban on media at Dover Air Force Base when America’s war dead come home ignores the very rights they died fighting for, and it should be lifted, Connie Schultz writes for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Supporters of the Iraq war have long argued that media images... More »

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US military • Dover Air Force Base • George HW Bush • Iraq war • George W. Bush • caskets • Afghanistan war • President Obama • American flag • war dead • media ban

 Wounded Warriors
 Saluted at Pentagon

Quiet indoor ceremony honors injured

Mar 13, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A poignant and little-known ceremony featuring wounded vets is held privately indoors at the Pentagon every six weeks, reports the Wall Street Journal. It's called the "Wounded Warrior March." Hundreds of Defense Department employees line the corridors of the Pentagon to applaud, cheer, shake hands, or hug... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Pentagon • Department of Defense • soldier • Walter Reed Army Medical Center • wounded • Marine • Wounded Warrior March • caskets • bereaved • Maj. Zachary Miller • Diane Bodman • Maj. Lyndon Marshall

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