NPPA has formerly requested to the White House that the ban be lifted on photographing America’s war dead returning to this country at Dover Air Force base. The base is the military’s largest mortuary facility and is located in Dover, Delaware. The question of lifting the ban was also addressed in President Barack Obama’s prime-time press conference Monday.
“NPPA wholeheartedly supports the removal of restrictions on media coverage of the flag-draped coffins coming in to Dover Air Force Base – be it by Executive Order or by passage of Fallen Hero Commemoration Act,” NPPA’s President Bob Carey wrote yesterday to the President.