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This is a very interesting use of Google earth and Google maps. And appropriate for this holiday.
This Memorial Day I would like to share with you a personal project of mine that uses Google Earth to honor the more than 5,700 American and Coalition servicemen and women that have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have created a map for Google Earth that will connect you with each of their stories—you can see photos, learn about how they died, visit memorial websites with comments from friends and families, and explore the places they called home and where they died.
Found by Alexander Omhof.
pshh.. Soldiers are the ultimate sheeple. And before you flame – I served during the first Gulf ‘war’.
And for what?
You couldn’t do this experiment in Iraq. The map would be just solid yellow. And that’s just the civilians.
Seeing the map, I was immediately struck by how sparsely “hometown’d” the Republican states tended to be. Especially Texas. While the mainly Democratic eastern states, appear to have suffered the larger losses. Now why do you suppose that might be true? Hmmmm?
While I flew our flag at half mast (till noon) mainly to please my veteran dad (WW2). I’m not a war supporter. I don’t wear any part of my old AF uniform around, to inspire others to sign up. Since the 1940s, US wars haven’t been about defending our country or close allies. They’ve been strictly political or economic. So while I honor the sacrifice the soldiers make. I don’t approve or support the wars that their commanders decided would be fitting to fight.
There’s wars you fight because you’re back into a corner, and have no choice. And there are these other wars, that were planned by some military strategists, looking at a map of the world, and saying “well here’s a hot spot we haven’t been to yet”. That’s vile and disgusting to me. And a deliberate waste of human life, just to further the careers and fortunes of those who orchestrate these wars. Who don’t care how many soldiers die for them.
Well Bushed, im sorry for appointing my mistake, but the point is still the point. Ad hominem is arguments.
#21, bobsyeruncle is right. For what reason and logic are these soldiers dying for? For the terrorism we are seemingly increasing?
How can we expect to invade a country and them to just sit there and take it all in? They will fight back, that is why there is a high amount of terrorism. But the soldiers were brave and the leaders were bastard.
War isn’t worth the innocent lives that suffer, the terrorists run away and don’t get the blame, and the people are hated. Children orphaned, women widowed, country vandalized, culture erased, lives lost, for what? Nothing.
#24 i sgree with everything you said, but the ‘terroists’ never existed in the first place. that was just part of the lie.
The above consideration is smart and doesn’t require any supplementary addition. It’s perfect consideration from my side.
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Henry Pollick
#25 Eaze..
You seem to have trouble separating those that died in war from those that sent them.
You got what you wanted – a response to a shockingly thoughtless opinion. Now move along, little man.
#27 you clearly didn’t read my post in #11 where i did seperate the soldiers from those that sent them.
the point is that people should have the responsibility to think for themselves instead of blindly taking orders, especially when those orders involve killing people. i’m sure the argument of those giving the orders would be that they never killed anyone, the soldiers did. if you’re a man, you take responsibility for yourself, otherwise you’re nothing. the reason they’re supposed to be fighting in the first place is so everyone has the freedom to think for themselves.
why is that so hard for people like you to understand?