US War Boots: The Cost Of The Iraq War

Death is not valuable, but life is higher. The boots of the Grant Park in Chicago are the protagonists of the "cost of the Iraq war" exhibition, each of which represents a soldier killed in Iraq. The airborne division originally left three huge granite pillars inscribed on the names of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. But they now find that the war between Iraq and Afghanistan is not over yet, but the space on the original commemorative column is full. 15 days ago, The Associated Press reported that the force had to add another granite pillar, which now has 50 names inscribed on it. "Of course we can join enough columns," Roger Vickers, a retired commander who served 14 years in the eighty-second airborne division, said, "but we hope that no more names should be added to the pillars." The US military has a tradition of inscribed the names of dead soldiers first during the war. After the war, commemorative activities will be held. The troops with full commemorative space left before the start of the war were not one of the eighty-second airborne divisions. Reported that the United States Army First Cavalry Division also appeared in a similar situation. First, the logistical staff of the cavalry division said that the names of soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan could only be written on the back of the memorial. The Associated Press statistics show that since 2001, the number of US troops killed in Iraq has exceeded 4000, and the number of deaths in Afghanistan is about 800.