These boots represent the 1466 Us Military Personnel Killed in Iraq (so far). The exhibition on The Human Cost of the Iraq War was in Austin at Zilker Park today. Also included in the exhibit was a wall of names listing the names and ages of 11,000 Iraqi civilians known killed.
Lance Cpl Franklin A. Sweger died in enemy action in Anbar Province, December 16, 2004. To match faces with the names, check out Faces of the Fallen.
This makes me remember the U.S. cemetery at Colleville in Normandy. I went there for the second time on the 50th anniversary of the D-day landings. a very thought-provoking experience
A good web site for the numbers of casualities for the war on terror in Iraq is: Iraq Coalition Casualities.
Our military has suffered nearly an entire divisions worth of casualities, I wonder how well recruiting is keeping up?
I saw on CNN (I think) that this exhibit was going to be in Austin. I thought of you…and of course, the fallen soldiers. Did you take the pictures or find them elsewhere?
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