There's a damn fine article over at
Kansas City InfoZine which I highly recommend as well.
Boots show the cost of Iraq war
By the
Dayton Daily News.
More than 2,400 pairs of black boots lined the Ohio Statehouse lawn last week like white grave markers at a military cemetery. "Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of the War in Iraq" used the pairs of boots to represent U.S. military deaths in Iraq. The traveling exhibit, created by the American Friends Service Committee in January 2004 with 504 pairs of boots, visited Columbus for three days. Most boots are purchased from Army surplus stores, but some families donate the boots worn by their loved ones. An assortment of shoes represent the estimated 100,000 Iraqis killed in the war.
I actually saw this while I was in Columbus last week.
ReplyDeleteToo many boots, too many sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, uncles, aunts, grandmas, grandfathers, lovers, friends...
It was an excellent demonstration of the price of our strutting government's stupidity.