With more than 1,600 Americans killed in the Iraq War, members of Campus Action wanted to turn the number into a visual.
So they lined center campus walkways with 12-inch plywood markers – each with the name, age and date of those killed. The display was to be up through Thursday, May 26.
Sophomore Ian Kennedy said the project is not intended as a political statement, merely a reminder of the war's toll and a memorial to those who have died. “This brings to the forefront, in a comprehensible way, the actual number of servicemen and women who have died,” he said.
On Sept. 11, 2002, the Union community placed some 3,000 flags on the campus green in memory of those killed on September 11, 2001.