Fired for a Photo

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Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday's edition of The Seattle Times, has been fired along with her husband. Her employer, a private contractor, says it decided to fire her after receiving a complaint from the military about her violation of the Pentagon ban on images of soldiers' caskets. Silicio says she feels "like I was hit in the chest with a steel bar and got my wind knocked out." She took the photo, she said, to help families of fallen soldiers understand the care and devotion that civilians and military crews dedicate to the task of returning the soldiers home.