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Honor guard soldiers carry the coffin of Vasile Raduna, seen in the photo on the right, during the ceremony for the repatriation his and of Corp. Ciprian-Stefan Polschi's body from Afghanistan, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. 

Media matters: Part II

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Critical State, a foreign policy newsletter by Inkstick Media, takes a deep dive into the ways in which militaries look to the media to justify their existence — specifically in how they handle their war dead.

Siblings Erika and Dwayne Bermudez comfort one another during a short viewing of their mother, Eudiana Smith, at The Family Funeral Home, May 2, 2020, in Newark, New Jersey.

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