[Peace-discuss] ASA to build Iraq Memorial

[Karen Medina]

[The Arab Student Association on campus is hoping to put together a day of memorial for the Iraq war on March 29th (the day after the students get back from Spring Break). They even want to create a wall like the Vietnam Memorial... read the entire email below. Lina describes it. -karen medina]

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>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:53:41 -0600
>From: "Lina Elbeshbeeshy" <egyptianloolie at gmail dot com>  
>Subject: Iraq Memorial  
>
>   Hi dear AWARE members,
>
>   ASA is trying to plan a day of memorial for the Iraq
>   war on campus, but since the anniversary falls on
>   our Spring Break, we chose the Thursdayafter we come
>   back, March 29th.  We were hoping to build an
>   imitation of the Vietnam Memorial Wall, but for the
>   Iraq War, using names of Iraqis who died as well as
>   American soldiers.  We also plan on flooding the
>   Quad with statistics, by chalking the quad and
>   putting flyers up everywhere the week before.  And
>   on Thursday we plan on having cardboard cutouts of
>   the people that have the statistics of how many
>   American soldiers died, Iraqi civilians, Iraqi
>   women, children, etc. 
>
>   We were wondering if you would like to cosponsor
>   this event and work on it with us.  In order to make
>   it a success we need as much help as we can get, and
>   I know you have many dedicated members in AWARE, so
>   we would be honored if you would work on this
>   project with us.
>
>   To give you an idea of how the wall might look, I
>   attached a picture of Project Red, an event we held
>   last year for Palestine.  We built a mock of the
>   wall that stands now in Palestine.  I don't know if
>   you heard about it, but I think it was a very big
>   success and a lot of people came to ask us questions
>   about the situation, which is ultimately what we
>   want: educating people.  So hopefully this will be
>   big too.
>
>   Please let me know what you think and if you have
>   any other ideas.  Thanks!
>
>   --
>   Lina El-Beshbeeshy
>   College of Engineering
>   Arab Student Association President
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