A Picture Says A Thousand Words...

Under-reported was the March, 2003 military regulation banning the taking or distribution of any images of caskets or body tubes of soldiers killed in battle. It was put into action on the eve of the Iraq Invasion. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Request those photographs are now available. Soldiers' families and the Louisiana National Guard have also defied the Pentagon and allowed the media to film the arrival of their dead soldiers.

Aside from this effort to censor these images, "...Bush has not attended any memorials or funerals for soldiers killed in action during his presidency as his predecessors had done..."