war dead

The NY Times has a link up where you can see the faces of the U.S. military dead.

Here it is. If you wish, you can sort by state or hometown.

I've taught at least one veteran in every course I've had at Linn-Benton Community College in the past two years. Marines, Army, National Guard. Don't believe I had an vets in my UO class last spring. Will be interested to see if I have any this spring.

Not that I think there's a class background difference in people signing up for military service or anything. No, that wouldn't be American of me. Anyway. As far as I know, none of my current or previous students (and we're spanning many a year here) has been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. I hope it stays that way.

Wishing for peace and justice. I believe they can coexist.