Dover test

Is the American public prepared for the sight of our most precious resource coming home in flag-draped caskets into Dover Air Force Base in Delaware – which is a point entry for our Armed Forces?The Dover test is not a formal test, and the consequences are difficult to measure.

[dubious – discuss] In the first Iraq War, the government banned media outlets from showing any returning deceased at Dover.

During November 2000, the Clinton administration established a rule prohibiting any press coverage of returning US war casualties.

Tami Silicio, a worker for a military contractor in Kuwait took photos of the coffins of returning casualties, which made their way to the front pages.

Shortly thereafter a journalist from The Memory Hole requested casualty photos under the Freedom of Information Act, and received a number of pictures.

American war casualties returning to Dover AFB from Iraq in 2004. Photo by the U.S. Air Force .
A U.S. Army soldier sleeps near transfer cases aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft bound for Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. U.S. Army Sergeant Osvaldo Ortiz (pictured) accompanied his friend's remains from Afghanistan to Dover AFB in June 2003.] Photo by Peter Rimar .