War memorial paints park red and white

Source: Chico Enterprise Record (California)

By HEATHER HACKING - Staff Writer
Article Launched: 05/08/2007 12:00:00 AM PDT


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The display was part of a project traveling through the country. Each time the flags appear, volunteers from each city add 10,000 flags to the project.

Volunteers estimated that the white flags, for the Iraqis, represented only about one in six of the people who have been killed on the Iraqi side of the war.

The red, the minority, were for the Americans who have died.

There are currently 116,000 flags in the collection, which will head to Washington, D.C. eventually.

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Read more: http://www.chicoer.com/newshome/ci_5842334

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It is hard not to cry while at the memorial, to think that every flag represents the son or daughter, mother or father who has been killed since the illegal occupation began. People are starting to stop by and offer support. I plan to get some flags for my yard and hope that others around the country do the same. Flags are cheap at any local hardware store. THey are survey flags and can be bought in bundles of 100 for $5.

We really need to start making the public aware of the true death tally from this war.

Can somebody please add the photos from the news story to this thread. I don't know how, and I have to get back to the memorial.


Also:

Colonel Ann Wright will be at Children's Playground in Chico at 1pm today for the opening ceremony of the Iraq Body Count Flag Memorial.

Cindy Sheehan will be here tomorrow at 4pm at Children's Park and then at the college



http://www.chicoer.com/fastsearchresults/ci_5842356

Sheehan in Chico for rally, talk

Cindy Sheehan, an internationally known peace activist, will join a Chico demonstration against the war in Iraq Wednesday.

She's also scheduled to give a public talk at 7 that evening at Harlen Adams Theatre on the Chico State University campus.

Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq, gained notoriety when she spent four weeks camped outside President Bush's ranch in Texas in 2005. She and her supporters called their base of operations there Camp Casey.

In sympathy, at the time, some people in the north valley who oppose the war set up their own "Camp Casey" in Children's Playground at First and Main streets in Chico.

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On Wednesday, Sheehan will join their protest, which will be 4-6 p.m., Hilderbrand said. She said Sheehan will leave Chico Wednesday night to go to Washington, D.C., where she'll prepare for a Mother's Day march against the war.

I am really amazed that we managed to get all the flags done in one day. There was a range of 15-25 people from 10am-8pm, with the last hour going the fastest.

A very, very emotional undertaking.

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Does anybody here have suggestions for contacts for national media?