Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to lift the ban on media coverage of our country's returning military dead from Iraq and Afghanistan provided that the families of the fallen agree to the photographs being taken. President George H.W. Bush, instituted the "Dover Ban" in 1991 prior to the Gulf War because he was worried that images of the returning military dead would affect support for the war. The media and photographers have been kept away from the coffins of our fallen from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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