Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has decided to allow photographs of flag-draped caskets arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as America’s war dead return home as long as the families of the fallen troops agree, the Associated Press reports today. The ban was put in place in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush.
The Dover Air Force Base is home to the military’s largest mortuary facility. The bodies of killed American troops come back to the States through Dover before traveling on to hometowns and families.