and all the visual evidence of them. and for years we did not see them. and then one day a blogger in arizona got a letter from the department of defense. that blogger was named russ kick. and he specializes in finding and preserving and publishing documents that the government wants to keep hid el paso. and he had been asking repeatedly in all different kinds of ways for photos of the solemn ceremonies. he appealed when the pentagon turned him down. and then out of the blue one day they sent him a cd with 361 photographs showing the return of fallen service members and the remains of astronauts who died on board the columbia in 2003. all coming home to dover air force base. and most people, including many news organizations didn't realize that the photos existed at at all. didn't realize that the defense department was taking these photographs to document the transfer ceremonies in the first place. there was a media ban on the media taking their own photos or