Witness the Cost of War - Rutland, VT
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N 43° 36.478 W 072° 58.789
18T E 663030 N 4830314
The stone cairn represents the tens of thousands of Iraq citizens who have been killed during the war and occupation of Iraq. Dedicated 11/11/05.
Waymark Code: WMCCQZ
Location: Vermont, United States
Date Posted: 08/22/2011
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Members of the congregation designed and built the monument which rests on the church's front lawn. Instead of names, gold stars represent the American men and women killed. In front of the 18-foot-wide panel is a grouping of rocks, designed to visually represent the thousands of unnamed Iraqis killed in the war. In previous wars, like WW I or WW II, there was a unifying sense of sacrifice that the entire country shared. That shared sense of loss seems less evident today.
"I think in our age, it's very easy to let the war take place in a way that just slips by your daily life. And I think people will stop ideally and pause and maybe take a moment of reflection on the lives that have been lost. And I think that's just one way to say -we are in the middle of a war time and that's a sober place to be if you're a person of faith or a person of conscience."
--Steve Wilson is Minister of Rutland's Unitarian Universalist Church
On the second Sunday of each month there is a ceremony commemorating the Americans and Iraqis killed by this war and occupation.
Cairn Location: In front of church
Cairn Purpose: Other (please describe in description)
Type if different from above list: War memorial
Cairn Condition: 
Types of rock: Not listed
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