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 on anybody publishing those photos. but russ kick in arizona, he figured it out. and he filed specifically for them. he placed a freedom of information act for, quote, all photographs showing caskets containing the remains of u.s. military personnel at dover air force base. he crafted it just right and he was the one who got them. when he got them he published them on his website, a website called the memory hole. once russ kick published the photo, newspapers and shows all over the country also published them. but it was russ kick who thought about this harder than anybody else did. he changed the way americans saw the iraq war, literally with those photos.