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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Dover Air Force Base

Dover Air Force Base stories: 7 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

Obama Visits Dover
to Honor War Dead

Prez makes midnight trip to base as 18 bodies arrive

Oct 29, 09 5:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama made a surprise visit to Dover Air Force Base before dawn today to honor fallen American service members. The president arrived at the base shortly after a transport plane carrying 18 bodies landed. Obama and other officials boarded the plane and stood by as a chaplain prayed over... More »

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US military • Dover Air Force Base • Afghanistan war • President Obama • war dead

 Press Allowed to Witness  
 Return of Dead Service Member 

Afghanistan casualty's return first to be covered  since end of 18-year-old ban

Apr 6, 09 3:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The press was allowed to cover the return of a fallen US soldier last night for the first time since President Obama lifted an 18-year-old ban, the Washington Post reports. The family of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, who was killed by a bomb in Afghanistan Saturday, gave permission... More »

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US military • Dover Air Force Base • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama • war dead

(Newser) - The Pentagon has lifted the media ban at Dover (Del.) Air Force Base and will allow photos of the coffins of US war casualties returning from overseas—provided the service members' families approve. Under the new rules, the families can withhold permission, CNN reports. Some relatives had lobbied against... More »

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Pentagon • Robert Gates • US military • Dover Air Force Base • Department of Defense • defense secretary • Obama administration • President Obama • war dead • media ban

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

analysis

 Should We Allow Coffin Pics? 


Feb 15, 09 4:26 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama is reviewing a media ban at Dover Air Force Base, where dead soldiers arrive in flag-draped coffins, but "in truth, it's not an easy issue," John Barry writes in Newsweek. There is widespread support for raising the ban "as a way of reminding the... More »

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media • coffin • US military • Dover Air Force Base • soldier • soldiers' families

Fort Dix Terror Plot Foiled

May 8, 07 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Six alleged terrorists are under arrest after plotting an attack against New Jersey's Fort Dix Army Base. The men, Islamic radicals from Albania and the former Yugoslavia, had hatched a deadly (if decidedly low-tech) plan: storm the base with automatic weapons and execute as many soldiers as possible. More »

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terrorism • terror plots • radical • Fort Dix • Dover Air Force Base • Fort Monmouth • Islamic radicals

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