Over 52 Pairs of Combat Boots Representing U.S. Soldiers From Colorado Who Have Fallen in the Iraq War; Civilian Casualties Memorialized
Acclaimed War Casualties Exhibition on Display in Arvada
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in cooperation with the local Colorado Citizens for Peace will honor fallen U.S. military personnel and Iraqi civilians with its traveling exhibition: Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Colorado, which will be on display at Arvada's McIlvoy Park on October 13, 2007.
Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Colorado focuses on the specific cost of the war to the state of Colorado. The exhibit includes 52 pairs of boots representing fallen servicemen and women from Colorado, and a visual representation of the Iraqi civilian casualties. The exhibit is part of AFCS's national Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War network.
AFSC, an international social justice organization, created Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to illustrate the lives lost in the war in Iraq. It first opened in Chicago's Federal Plaza with just over 500 pairs of boots in January 2004. The national exhibit was last displayed on Memorial Day weekend 2007 with over 3,400 pairs of boots. This was the last time that the entire death toll was represented in one location. Since then the exhibition has been divided into state displays and traveled throughout the nation to smaller cities and towns. All the state exhibits combined now include more than 3,770 pairs of combat boots representing U.S. military casualties, along with a memorial to the tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have been killed in the conflict.
WHO: American Friends Service Committee, Colorado Citizens for Peace and Arvada United Methodist ChurchWHAT: Eyes Wide Open - AFSC's widely acclaimed war casualties exhibition illustrating the human cost of the Iraq war
WHERE: McIvoy Park; 5750 Upham Street, Olde Town, Arvada, CO 80002
MAPWHEN: Saturday, October 13, 2007; 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
CONTACT: Cindy Lowry -- Telephone: 303-463-7728
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