Saturday, 24. April 2004

Woman fired by military contractor for published photograph of flag-draped U.S. coffins


A military contractor fired two cargo workers responsible for a photograph of flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers that appeared on a newspaper's front page.

Maytag Aircraft Corp. fired Tami Silicio, 50, and her husband, David Landry, because they ''violated Department of Defense and company policies by working together'' to take and publish the photograph, company president William Silva said in a news release Thursday.

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