300+ boots, symbolic of 169 NY, NJ soldiers killed in Iraq on display

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Traveling exhibit calls attention to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq

More than 300 boots, symbolic of the 169 N.Y., N.J. soldiers killed in the war, are on display
Sunday, August 27, 2006

Staten Island Advance
Sunday, August 27, 2006

-- Hundreds of boots stood empty in Clove Lakes Park yesterday, symbolic of the soldiers from New York and New Jersey who have been killed in Iraq.

A sign posted near the exhibit listed the Iraq War's calculated cost for New York State: $28,572,000,001. Beyond the soldiers' boots, 50 pairs of sneakers, children's shoes and high heels shoes were arranged.

Each shoe is meant to represent 50 Iraqi civilians killed in the conflict -- 100,000 in total.

On a table next to a binder of soldier biographies was a guest book.

One message simply read: "Too many, too soon."


story: http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1156684938209190.xml&coll=1

[Earth_First]

1. Eyes Wide Open Tour:

http://www.afsc.org/eyes/

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2. shit yes

bravo for the photo. well done.

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3. Another photography [from Chicago]

illustrating the sneakers which represent civilian casualties:

[unhappycamper]

5. From: EWO tour in Boston last November:

[babylonsister]

4. Too many, too soon. K&R. nt