Faces of the Dead

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20061228_3000FACES_TAB1.html

This a interactive thing that allows you to search a name, hometown, or state of a fallen US solider in the Iraq war. To us, or most certainly to me, the war seems so far away it almost feels like a story or a movie and that all these events we hear about so much aren't really happening. To play around with this "faces of the dead" thing, it hits home and makes you think about how every single square in the picture that they show repesents a real person. A father perhaps, a friend, someone who was just like you and they lost their lives in the war. To put all these faces to people that you hear about dying in a helicopter accident or a shooting, really makes you think. I saw that 4 people died today, one year ago. Today the families and friends of 4 different people mourn the death of a young solider. It hurts my heart to know that people everyday suffer over the lost of their loved ones over in Iraq and that people are still dying over their. Maybe even as I type this, a poor, young solider lost his/her life for their country. LB