CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield December 19, 2013 16:45:00
To cover the seals. >> some of the other pictures that i found so remarkable, there was one picture that really stood out, a coffin. >> right. >> at first i wasn't sure what i was seeing. it looked like a belt. this is a wooden coffin and those are the trident pins that the seals wear on their lapels. i'm only guessing this is a fallen comrade and they each took the pins off of their lapels and jammed them into the wood of the coffin? >> this is a recent tradition that happened in the past number of years where they actually, the seals who atenld, yes, take their trident pins off their uniform...
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