The Memory Hole's obtained 361 "secret" pictures of flag draped caskets from the Air Force, and posted them on the web. In response, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said: "We must pay attention to the privacy and to the sensitivity of the families of the fallen".

Like most other things spouted forth from the Da House these days, that made me go "Wah?!". Since when was ignoring, marginalizing, and hiding someone's death considered a way to honor them? If that's true, why do we have obitraries, funerals, and marked graves? I don't know about in the White House, but in most other places in our society, we honor the dead by remembering them.

So, in honor and memory of those soldiers who perished in Iraq at the whim of an incompetent regime, I present to you the photos: