When the war in Iraq started, I decided to keep the names of all the Americans who died in this ill-begotten, pre-emptive war on a poster board for our peace group. In the beginning, silly me thought that one-half of a poster board would probably be sufficient. So, on April 4, 2003, as I spoke to the press outside the University of Wyoming Union while Laramie's Stand Up for Peace waged a die-in:
the half-board of names made its first public appearance:
It soon became clear that this was unworkable and, today, I will add panel 14 to the set, a set that has now grown so large I will soon need to put the main sections of it in our storage shed.
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