Current News in Context
October 12, 2004
The Eyes Wide Open exhibit has been on the road for almost nine months. We have spent a great deal of time in 'middle' America. Over the summer the exhibit was displayed during both national conventions, in New York City and Boston.
The exhibit has appeared in: Chicago, Glen Ellyn and Rockford, IL / Washington DC / Youngstown, OH / Oberlin, OH, Cleveland, OH / Canton, OH / Akron, OH / Philadelphia, PA / Charleston, WV / Providence, RI / Connecticut / SE Massachusetts / Boston, MA / Western Massachusetts / Vermont / Long Island, NY / New York City / Hempstead, NY / Indianapolis, IN / Cincinnati, OH / Dayton, OH / Lansing, MI / Kalamazoo, MI / Kansas City, MO
Future sites: Athens, GA / Macon, GA / Atlanta, GA / Orlando, FL / Jacksonville, FL / Tampa, FL / Columbus, OH / Milwaukee, WI / Madison, WI / Toledo, OH / Fitchburg, MA / Teaneck, NJ / Washington, DC
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As the war drags on, it is increasingly the case that each city and state has its war dead. Families visit the memorial to pay respects to loved ones; others visit to learn the human cost of war. Here is what they were reporting in Kansas City:
These boots bear the scuffs of war (subscription required-Kansas City Star)
"Boots from servicemen and servicewomen from Kansas, Missouri and Iowa are on display in the Central Library. The rest are spread among other branches.
At the main library, 13 pairs of boots from Kansas stand side by side. The scuffed-up boots of Sgt. Jacob Butler of Wellsville, Kan., are among them. The 24-year-old told his father before he deployed that he dreamed he wouldn't make it back.
He didn't. On April 1, 2003, he died in an ambush in As Samawah.
From Missouri there are 17 pairs. The worn boots of Army Spc. Joel Bertoldie of Independence lean against the library's white wall. The Truman High School graduate died July 18, 2003, when a bomb detonated beneath his vehicle in Fallujah. He was 20.
Iowa's 13 pairs include the mud-spattered boots of Marine Lance Cpl. Benjamin Carman, a 20-year-old in Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Regiment, who died April 6, 2004, one of 10 Marines caught in an ambush in Ramadi."
From recent figures: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
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