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Arlington West, week ending September 21st.-12 dead
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Arlington West is a memorial to the soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan that is set up and taken down every Sunday in Santa Monica next to the peer.
The week ending Sunday 21st. 2008, twelve US soldiers were killed in Iraq and 3 in Afghanistan. The memorial is set up by the Veterans' For Peace , and volunteers who join them in the task of setting up one cross for each solider killed. Red crosses are also used:they stand for ten dead have been added to the while ones to make the set up more manageable. It take dozens of volunteers over three hours to set up the memorial. Each week there is a sign noting the number of killed soldiers and one symbolic coffin for each of the dead is dispalyed in a line.///12 dead the week ending Sept. 21st recorded at Arlington West in Santa Monica, CA
The week ending Sunday 21st. 2008, twelve US soldiers were killed in Iraq and 3 in Afghanistan. The memorial is set up by the Veterans' For Peace , and volunteers who join them in the task of setting up one cross for each solider killed. Red crosses are also used:they stand for ten dead have been added to the while ones to make the set up more manageable. It take dozens of volunteers over three hours to set up the memorial. Each week there is a sign noting the number of killed soldiers and one symbolic coffin for each of the dead is dispalyed in a line.///12 dead the week ending Sept. 21st recorded at Arlington West in Santa Monica, CA
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