The human cost of war.The American Friends Service Committee The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief. (AFSC AFSC American Friends Service Committee AFSC Alaska Fisheries Science Center AFSC Air Force Systems Command AFSC Air Force Specialty Code AFSC Air Force Space Command AFSC Armed Forces Services Corporation AFSC Army Field Support Command ) has created a memorial exhibit honoring the lives of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed during the Iraq War. The Eyes Wide Open This article contains links, text or other information that has been inserted due to a business arrangement by the Wikimedia Foundation rather than the usual Wikipedia editing process. It may or may not comply with all of Wikipedia's normal editorial standards. exhibit features an outdoor display of 800 pairs of military boots with nametags of fallen U.S. soldiers and a twenty-four-foot wall listing dead Iraqi civilians. The exhibit is touring the country, with stops in Boston and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. during the political conventions. Janis D. Shields, director of media and public relations for AFSC, told The Progressive that the goal of the memorial is to call greater attention to the human cost of war. "We don't want the tragedy of Iraq to be lost," says Shields. |
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