Faces of the Fallen is a browsable database of U.S. service members who've died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Created by
Adrian Holovaty (
chicagocrime.org,
django), the site lets you browse by
age,
death date,
home state and city,
military branch or
multiple search criteria. Each soldier gets his or her own page, as does each
date,
American city,
age,
military branch, etc. There's an RSS feed for
recent casualties, a feed for each state and a feed for each military branch (also features Google Maps on several pages to highlight service members' hometowns). An amazing project that puts faces and stories behind the statistics we hear every day. [via
mefi projects]
posted by mathowie
on Apr 13, 2006 -
55 comments
While I'm certainly not a fan of the methods used to get us into Iraq and keep us there, I do feel for the troops on the ground and hope they return safe.
Any Soldier is a site that aims to let you contact any random US Soldier in a pen-pal email or postcard kind of style, which is kind of cool if you don't know anyone over there. Recently they've gone and added
Treat Any Soldier, a way to send a care package to any random US Soldier serving in Iraq. I didn't vote for Bush and I think the war is a growing mistake, but I'm sending a package over this holiday season. Seems like a great way to actually do some good for someone in the real world than putting a picture of a ribbon on your car will ever do.
posted by mathowie
on Dec 1, 2004 -
85 comments
Earlier this month, internal white house rumors were leaked saying that ideally, it'd be great to find an Al Queda suspect during the week of the Democratic National Convention, since the Democrats would likely be grabbing headlines. Sounds like some crass opportunism instead of truly protecting the republic from terrorists, doesn't it?
Well, what do you know, today
this message floated
at the top of CNN.com, more important than Kerry's keynote.
Even though the guy was caught on Sunday, we don't hear about it until today.
Foxnews looks the same way (
screenshot), with the Al Queda headline above Kerry's one day in the sun at Fox News. But it's all just a coincidence and we're not being played like a fiddle. Sure.
posted by mathowie
on Jul 29, 2004 -
94 comments
From the where-are-they-now (-and-I-hope-they-are-doing-ok) file:
Jeremy Botter, our medic
man in Iraq, has just released all his posts from Iraq as
a free downloadable PDF. It contains the story of capturing Saddam, getting bombed at camp as soldiers died, and a whole lot of playstation2.
posted by mathowie
on Jun 1, 2004 -
4 comments
Much of the
news from Iraq looks grim and it's easy to feel powerless about the whole situation.
Mercycorps lets you do something about it, with 92% of all money collected going directly to humanitarian programs to feed, clothe, and provide healthcare to Iraq citizens in need. Looks like a good cause I'm happy to get behind.
posted by mathowie
on Nov 18, 2003 -
17 comments
Just how large is 87 billion dollars exactly?
It's this large, about the size of three costco warehouses by the looks of it.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 8, 2003 -
58 comments
When was the last time we bombed Iraq? 1991? 1992? How about
4 days ago. And again six days before that to name just a few.
The US Bombing Watch page keeps detailed tabs on all bombing attacks by allied forces since March 9, 2000, but the bombing has continued since the end of the Gulf War [via
rc3.org].
posted by mathowie
on Sep 19, 2002 -
81 comments
