Man Builds Memorial to Fallen Troops

[Contrary1]

SHARON, Wis. - Chet Borowski looks for death every day. He scours the Internet for scraps of information about coalition troops killed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He boils down everything from their names to their units onto tiny strips of text, which he posts on 8-foot sheets of plywood along the road at the front of his property in southern Wisconsin.

"Someone's got to do this," Borowski said. "What's my sacrifice? Nothing compared to their sacrifice. ..."

Borowski, 49, started the memorial in April 2003, shortly after the U.S. invaded Iraq. He used to update the casualty count on a piece of chimney set at the end of his driveway, but over time grew frustrated with the media's coverage of coalition deaths.

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The office of his ranch home is full of binders stuffed with newspaper articles. He sends sympathy cards to families he can locate, and his door is plastered with thank-you notes.

Kathryn Castner _ the mother of Army Spc. Stephen Castner of Cedarburg, Wis., who was killed near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on July 24 _ wrote: "Since our son's death, the most disturbing thing to us is how clueless and duped the American public is about what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. They simply are not paying attention. You are doing something that perhaps will cause a few more people to pay attention..."


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[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Some folks put up individual crosses on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier

every week, I heard? More power to those who protest.