The Map of Death

[From the diaries by susanhu.] The Palm Beach Post has published an extremely useful and sad map – an interactive map unlike any other I’ve seen before. It is a map of death: military deaths in the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq as distributed across the United States. The total: 1,949.
How many casualities has your town, city or state suffered? And what are the names of those lost? When, where and how did they die? Just click on any red, orange, yellow or green dot on the map and you’ll find out.

The casualties reflected on this map are names released by the Pentagon as of Wednesday, June 29. It doesn’t include 37 soldiers whose hometowns were in other states, U.S. territories and, in one case, a different country:

Puerto Rico, 20
Hawaii, 5
American Samoa, 4
Federated States of Micronesia, 2
Virgin Islands, 2
Alaska, 1
Guam, 1
Northern Mariana Islands, 1
United Kingdom, 1

You can share your condolences via the linked guestbooks or search for specific service members by date, type of incident, location, state, rank etc.

This is the map that all Bush administration officials should be forced to click on every single day until all troops return home safely. This is the map that they should be using to memorize the name of every single soldier that has died because of their incompetence and lies.

This is the map of death.

They claim that they attacked Iraq so the war on terror would not be brought back to America’s shores. Well, it has been brought back to America – in body bags and coffins that the public are not allowed to see. This administration has brought the war on terror to America via every single serviceperson and civilian who has died. While so many mourn quietly, the White House officials look the other way. Force them to see the truth.