[Peace] ASA to build Iraq Memorial
Karen Medina
kmedina at uiuc.edu
Thu Mar 8 16:17:45 CST 2007
[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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