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Will be a sight to see. Please, someone take pictures and maybe even vlog it?
Commemoration of the 4,000th US Military Death of the Iraq War…
…and 1,000,000 Iraqi deathsWHERE: Veterans’ Memorial Bridge (aka Detroit Superior bridge), Downtown Cleveland to West 25th Street, North Side
WHEN: TUESDAY, March 25, 2008, 5:00 p.m.Sponsored by NOAC and Peace Action
4000 US troops have died in Iraq as of today. Over 1 million Iraqis have died from the war and occupation. We will commemorate these tragedies by holding up (if we can recruit enough people) a string almost 1 mile in length of names of killed US soldiers in Iraq. Each name is on a sheet of paper with a border of 250 doves (to represent dead Iraqis). The sheets of paper are encased in a plastic protector. There will also be 4000 white lights.The project is a mammoth undertaking requiring the help of at the very least one hundred people to pull it off.
Please do everything you can to make it to the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge TUESDAY, March 25, 2008 at 5:00 PM.Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition [NOAC]
Phone: 216-736-4716 Website: www.noacinfo.org Email: noacinfo@aol.com
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:07 am March 25th, 2008 in Announcements, Military, Social Issues
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Shalom Jill,
As an 11-year veteran I find this commemoration distasteful. When civilians do this every day, week after week, turning a light on for each and ever soldier, sailor, marine or airman who dies, then I’ll take notice.
That we’ll somehow come together, sing kumbayah and then go about our business on Wednesday morning is a result of our national inattention span. This service does not honor our dead nor our nation.
Could we look into the eyes of the parents, wives or children of fatality No. 3,999 or No. 4,001 and tell them that their loved one was not worthy of such a gathering?
B’shalom,
Jeff
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Jeff – that’s a really good point. But can’t more than one commemorative-kind of activity occur as often or as infrequent as those with that interest want?
It doesn’t seem right to tell people how to commemorate but rather to allow people to do it as they see fit (within reason).
Nu?
Shalom Jill,
Would it be acceptable to protest the death of every 500th child by starvation or the rape of every 1,000th woman?
War is not a sporting event where we’re concerned with keeping score.
Every human loss is important. Resisting evil is a 24/7 task.
B’shalom,
Jeff
Okay – that’s all true – but I’m still pretty sure that I don’t feel it’s right for me to tell people who have had a loss – a direct loss specifically – about how to memorialize or commemorate or protest. Do you really want to dictate to them about how to do any of that?
Shalom Jill,
If this were an event put together by the families of service personnel who had died in Iraq, I wouldn’t comment.
But it wasn’t.
It was an anti-war demonstration using the 4,000th death milestone to draw attention to oppossition to the war.
B’shalom,
Jeff