Project compassion, an artist paints our fallen soldiers.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/23/project.compassion/index.html

CNN) -- Not long after Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Kirven was killed in an insurgent ambush in Afghanistan on Mother's Day in 2005, his family was contacted by a stranger.

Could an artist halfway across the country paint his portrait as a gift for his loved ones?

snip:More than 1,000 portraits -- offered at no charge -- have been completed since founding artist Kaziah Hancock began the project in 2003. The idea came after she heard a radio program about a soldier from her home state of Utah who had just been killed in Iraq.

"Instead of the war just being over there, it was right here in my living room," Hancock said.

The video:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/23/project.compassion/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
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Kaziah Hancock is a beautiful soul.

edited to add link to the Project Compassion website:
http://www.heropaintings.com/kzindex.aspx