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The War between the States was one of the first conflicts to be documented in detail by photojournalists.
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The Civil War
a confederate spy is buried with his hat after his execution by Union soldiers.
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Union soldiers killed during the Chancellorsville Campaign are interred in 1863
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Civil War, Fredericksburg
Union soldiers killed during the Chancellorsville Campaign
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Coffins await a mass burial at Arlington National Cemetery in 1898. Arlington has honored American war dead since 1864.
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Spanish American War
Arlington National Cemetery in 1898
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A service is held for American soldiers who died on the battlefields of France.
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World War I
battlefields of France
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On Armistice Day in 1921, pallbearers carry the remains of the Unknown Soldier down the steps of the capitol building.
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World War I
Armistice Day in 1921, pallbearers carry the remains of the Unknown Soldier
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Military personnel pay their respects beside the mass grave of 15 officers and others killed in the bombing attack at Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
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Pearl Harbor
mass grave of 15 officers and others killed
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The crew of the USS Lexington stand at attention for a burial at sea, while en route near New Guinea in 1944.
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World War II
USS Lexington stand at attention for a burial at sea
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Seven US Army men killed in a helicopter crash are honored at a memorial service prior being flown home.
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Vietnam War
Seven US Army men killed in a helicopter crash are honored at a memorial service prior to being flown home in 1963.

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The remains of a soldier killed in Vietnam are repatriated in 1995.
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Vietnam War
searchers have hunted for any remains of MIA's and others
repatriated in 1995
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The flag-draped coffins of 22 U.S. servicemen 15 of whom perished in a Beirut bombing and seven killed in the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada.
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Grenada and Beirut
flag-draped coffins of 22 U.S. servicemen
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This undated photo, released by the Department of Defense, depicts coffins aboard a cargo plane at Dover Air Force Base.
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Dover Air Force Base
Since 1991, media coverage of fallen servicemen at Dover has been prohibited. The ban was implemented under President George H.W. Bush
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On February 17, 1991 the month the coffin-photography ban was implemented Private Robert Talley became the first U.S. soldier to lose his life in Iraq's Operation Desert Storm.
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Chief Petty Officer Matthew J. Bourgeois, a 14-year Navy SEAL veteran, was killed on March 27, 2002, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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