PHOTOS...a DU Memorial, because so few notice "bush* wars" anymore....

[diamond14]

Comrades of the four Iraqi soldiers killed by a booby-trapped motorcycle drive away their coffins from Basra hospital. The attack took place behind the general hospital in the Hay al-Rissala neighborhood.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)




A U.S. Marine honor guard lifts the flag from the casket of U.S. Marine Cpl. Timothy Gibson on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005 at his funeral in the Last Rest Cemetery in Merrimack, N.H. Cpl. Gibson, who was 23, was killed in a helecopter crash in western Iraq (news - web sites) on Jan. 26 killing 30 Marines and one Navy medic. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe)




Elaine Gibson, center, accepts a U.S. flag from U.S. Marine Capt. Kevin Garbe, left, at the funeral of her son, Cpl. Timothy Gibson, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005, in Merrimack, N.H.. Beside Elaine Gibson are Cpl. Gibson's father Thomas Gibson, second from left, and brother U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Patrick Gibson at right. Cpl. Gibson was on a transport helicopter that crashed in western Iraq (news - web sites) last month, killing 30 Marines and one Navy medic. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe)




Iraqi women mourn the death of their relative who was one of four soldiers who were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the southern city of Basra, February 5, 2005. A roadside bomb blast killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded three in the southern city of Basra on Saturday, Iraqi officers said. British forces sealed off the site after the blast. REUTERS/Atef Hassan




Lance Cpl. Richard Chad Clifton, 19, of Milton Del., shown in this undated photo released by his family, was killed Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005, in Anbar province in western Iraq (news - web sites). Clifton, a member of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, was stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., before being deployed to Iraq. He was scheduled to return home next month. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the family)




Staff Sgt. Michael Switzer, 26, from Walker, Louisiana, touches the dog tags of a fallen comrade during a memorial service held at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad, on Friday, Feb. 4, 2005. Three soldiers from the 1088th Engineer Battalion, part of the Louisiana National Guards 256th Brigade Combat Team, were killed Jan. 28 when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb during a security patrol. The soldiers, Staff Sgt. Jonathan Reed, Sgt. Christopher Ramsey and Sgt. Michael Evans, were part of a massive operation to provide security during Iraqs first democratic elections in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson)




A photo of fallen sailor, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John D. House of Ventura, Calif., is shown on a screen during a memorial service held in his honor at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. House was among those killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq (news - web sites) last week. House, who was stationed at Pearl Harbor, was scheduled to return to the United States in February. House was serving in Iraq when his son was born on Christmas Eve. The 28-year-old Navy medic never got to meet his son face-to-face. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)




Melanie House, widow of Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John D. House of Ventura, Calif., holds the couple's infant son, James, during a memorial service at Pearl Harbor, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. Never able to see his son, House was one of the Hawaii-based servicemen killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)




Memeber of a Marine honor guard fold the U.S. flag which had covered the casket of Marine Lance Cpl. Tony Hernandez, Thursday, Feb, 3, 2005, during burial services near Spring Branch, Texas. Jeanette Trout, in black hood, mother of the deceased, looks on.. Hernandez was killed in a helicopter crash Jan. 26 in Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel)




A video image shows covered bodies laying in the back of a truck outside the hospital in the northern oil city of Kirkuk after militants ambushed and killed 12 Iraqi soldiers, the army said, February 3, 2005. Photo by Reuters Tv/Reuters security forces since last weekend's historic election, the Iraqi army said on Thursday. Two soldiers survived and fled to a nearby village after their bus was ambushed near the northern oil city of Kirkuk late on Wednesday.




Jennifer McCollum, center, whose husband Marine Capt. Dan McCollum was killed in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002, testifies during a hearing on military death benefits before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. At left is Tiffany Petty, of Inkom, Idaho, whose husband Army Pfc. Jerrick Petty was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, and at right is Bonnie Carrol, chairman of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)




Edith Smith, legislative committee member for Gold Star Wives of America, cries as she listens to testimony of fellow witnesses who are widows of servicemen from Operation Iraqi Freedom, during a hearing on military death benefits before the Senate Veterans Affairs committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. Behind her is Kathleen Moakler of the National Military Families Association. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)




A man cries as he receives the flag draped bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed in the northern city of Kirkuk. Insurgents killed 12 Iraqi soldiers near the oil-rich city as they were traveling back from guarding oil pipelines.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Thank-you, beautifully done and very moving n/t

MKJ

[Swamp Rat]

2. Kick

[Stinky The Clown]

3. A photo montage like this should replace all those

disgusting "Great Leader" billboards.

Thank you for a sensitive, moving, and very emotional post.

[Hepburn]

4. Thank you....

....beautifully done and it brought home to me again what a tragedy Iraq has been.

[LibDemAlways]

5. What a terrible waste.

Richard Clifton looks like he's playing soldier in that photo - way too young to be caught up in something so ugly and to die in a senseless, unnecessary war brought about by a bunch of madmen.

Thanks for putting this together.

[diamond14]

18. agree...a TERRIBLE waste.....

if more Americans would STAND UP to stop it...these bush* wars would end in a minute...but so far, pro-peace Marches range between 10,000 and a million people, while there are almost 300 MILLION Americans who could March for Peace....

so the numbers just aren't there...


in a HUGE MAJOR PRO-PEACE MARCH: a million people decide to get up off their couches and do something....that's about 0.3 % of all Americans.....

if about 1 % would STAND UP...bush* wars would END in a New York Minute....

[bpilgrim]

6. very moving, thank you and BTW...

you could always archive them here for a more permanent home...
http://images.globalfreepress.com

thanks again for sharing :toast:

peace

[Athame]

7. Nominated for home page

Thank you, diamond14, extremely moving.

One of those soldiers is from my city and another, Lance Cpl. Richard Chad Clifton, 19, of Milton Del., looks exactly like my 20-y-o son's best friend. We need to see these faces constantly.

Thank you.

[diamond14]

15. most Americans are not even aware of this slow-motion tragedy....

everyday, everyday, more and more lives are destroyed by bush* and his cabal...it's just a never-ending tragedy of gigantic proportions.....



:nuke:

[diamond14]

8. guess I'll bump this...only 7 people care so far.....sad....real sad...

:kick:

[Bluebear]

9. Of course not only 7 people care

Things fall off the front page and get lost. You should request 'please keep kicked" in your subject line. I nominated this for home page and thank you for a very moving pictorial.

I'm so terribly sorry for these people and their families. I wish we could have stopped it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. What a moving group of photos.

It demonstrates the losses that we are causing on two sides. Lance Cpl. Clifton looked like he should still be in junior high school.

[babylonsister]

11. Thanks for posting these pix.

We should be exposed to images like these constantly, lest anyone forget what is actually happening in terms of humans involved.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

12. Thanks for posting this.

Very well put together thread!

[autorank]

13. KICK

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[diamond14]

14. one more boost for those who are sacrificing.....

perhaps a few more will pay their respects to these people...


:kick:

[Athame]

16. These images should not disappear N/T

:kick:

[flygal]

17. Those were good choices

I was afraid to look - I don't need the shock of seeing limbless bodies to be reminded what's going on. But these were very powerful. Lest we forget.

[donheld]

19. God forgive America