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May 29, 2006
In Memory on Memorial Day.
Members of the San Jacinto Democratic Veterans Brigade, Bay Area New Democrats, CodePink, and others planted a flag for every soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Herman park. The name of the fallen soldier was read as a flag with their picture, hometown, age, and how they were killed was placed in the ground.
In the center of the Memorial Display is a mound of shoes, collected by the volunteers of CodePink Houston, to represent the un-numbered and growing civilian dead of both the War in Iraq and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. These conflicts have produced and continue to produce an unconscionable number of innocent civilian fatalities either as a direct result of military action or as a consequence of the contingent deterioration of the civilian societies in both countries. The mound is a chaotic pile of footwear designed to represent the uncertainty of civilian life in a war torn country. The shoes remain uncounted as do the civilian deaths in both these conflicts.
Posted by John Cobarruvias at May 29, 2006 07:37 PM | Permalink
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