WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday ordered the Pentagon to review its ban against news media photos of the flag-draped coffins of U.S. military dead returning from combat zones overseas.
Photographing the remains of American service members has long been controversial and Pentagon officials say the ban has been imposed with some exceptions since the 1990s to protect the privacy of family survivors.
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