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May 25, 2009

Memorializing the Fallen

Google engineer Sean Askay has produced a data overlay onto Google Earth that memorializes each of the American (and other Coalition) soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.  

It lists 5,679 Coalition deaths, as of March 2009.

It links to information about each individual, and includes a picture of the person in uniform.  Lines trace their hometown to their place of death on the other side of the earth.

Rest in peace.

Posted by Anupam Chander on May 25, 2009 at 06:51 AM in Globalization | Permalink

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I believe we should think deeply about ALL the human lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course that's not likely to happen, but it should not be as difficult to imagine some kind of memorialization of all the innocent civilians that have lost their lives as well.

Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | Jul 12, 2009 3:37:07 PM

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