April 22, 2004

Update on the "Coffins Meme"
by Liza Sabater

Tami Silicio gets fired for taking the now famous photograph of coffins in a cargo jet that was published in the Seattle Times | The Seattle Times: Local News: Woman loses her job over coffins photo

Woman loses her job over coffins photo
By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times staff reporter

A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday's edition of The Seattle Times.

Silicio was let go yesterday for violating U.S. government and company regulations, said William Silva, president of Maytag Aircraft, the contractor that employed Silicio at Kuwait International Airport.

The Memory Hole culls an archive of more than 300 images of the coffins arriving from Iraq at Dover Air Base | The Memory Hole > Photos of Military Coffins (Casualties From Iraq) at Dover Air Force Base via blogdex - link diffusion - thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover

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Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins (washingtonpost.com)
Wired News: Traveling Down the Memory Hole

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