BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Arlington Natl Cemetery -- Faces of the Fallen exhibit

VA -- Arlington Natl Cemetery -- Faces of the Fallen exhibit:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ARLFAC_050413_18.JPG: You'll see part of this panel again -- Note the Patrick Tillman, the football guy who was killed by friendly fire, is in the bottom right.
2. ARLFAC_050413_54.JPG: Seabees
3. ARLFAC_050413_59.JPG: This one is marked: "Unknown Soldier. For all service members that have died since November 11, 2004."
4. ARLFAC_051111_02.JPG: These are part of the Faces of the Fallen. It has been updated to include faces through November 14, 2005.
5. ARLFAC_051111_11.JPG: To Pee, or Not to Pee... By an anonymous female aviator. Operation Enduring Freedom brought with it the challenge of long flights. Extended flights pushed the limit of crew-day-and-rest issues for Navy and Air Force aircrews. Many of our flights were six hours long, with some reaching nine hours. Besides our mission tasking, we had to "work around" basic bodily processes. Soiling oneself wasn't a worry the males in our squadron, because they could urinate by using the Prowler relief tubes. The females, however, had to worry about everything, which begins a debate over the proper way to prepare for long missions. It is not possible in the EA-6B for female aircrew to leave their seats and squat. Any such action would have to be done on top of the ejection seat, which is not safe.
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Description of Subject Matter: Faces of the Fallen is an exhibit of more than 1,300 individual portraits honoring America’s service men and women who died in Afghanistan and Iraq during the period October 2001 to November 11, 2004. It has been on view at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery since March 2005. Talented artists from across the country have donated these works as their gift to a grateful nation and ultimately to the families themselves.

This unique tribute has been conceived and organized by private individuals and funded entirely with private donations. It reflects the desire, expressed in many communities and cities across the country, to honor these brave men and women.

Faces of the Fallen has no official status and has no connection to any government branch or agency.

Over 45,000 visitors each month visit Faces of the Fallen, the exhibit of portraits depicting service men and women who died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

More than 1,300 portraits fill the Women In Military Service For America Memorial, located at the gateway to Arlington National Cemetery. Since the exhibit opened on March 22, 2005, it has stirred the emotions of almost everyone who has seen it, brought together family members of the fallen and generated widespread media coverage.

Faces of the Fallen was conceived by Annette Polan, a prominent Washington, D.C. portrait artist and professor at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She was inspired by photographs of the Iraq war’s casualties that appeared in the newspaper, and said, “I wanted to give these people and their families something more permanent than twenty seconds passing in your memory.” Polan recruited more than 200 artists, ranging from professionals to students, to join the project each contributing time, skills and materials on a voluntary basis. Working from photographs, they created 6x8 inch portraits in a wide variety of media and styles. CORE architecture+design, an award-winning D.C. firm, conceived the design. Portraits are displayed on steel staffs of varying heights, rising from wooden platforms, with individual nameplates identifying each soldier. The exhibit includes those who died up to November 11, 2004.

More than 2,500 people attended the opening of the exhibit--most of them family members of the service men and women in the portraits. They came from 44 states and from as far away as India and Australia for the event, the largest gathering of families who had lost loved ones in Iraq.

Lengthy articles about the exhibit appeared in most of the nation’s major newspapers, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and USA Today. All of the network evening newscasts devoted a segment to Faces of the Fallen, as did CNN, PBS, and French and German television channels. Wire services in Japan, Russia, Australia and France also have covered the exhibit.

NBC began its coverage with Matt Lauer saying, “No matter what your feelings are about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there’s an exhibit…at Arlington National Cemetery that will definitely tug at your heart…It’s an extraordinary exhibit.” Polan had sought to transcend the political divisions that have accompanied the war in Iraq, and Faces of the Fallen has done so. Its nonpolitical nature is reflected by the bipartisan list of honorary co-chairs, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), John McCain (R-AZ), John Warner (R-VA), John D. Dingell (D-MI), John M. McHugh (R-NY), Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught, USAF (Ret.).

Since Faces of the Fallen opened, Polan believes that it has taken on a life of its own. “It has become an American memorial,” she said. “It changes daily with the letters, photographs, medals and mementos that visitors leave behind. The memorial…has become a way for America to unite and share our common sense of loss.”

Exhibition Facts:

Portraits:
A total of 1,319 works of art, plus 1 collective portrait (“Representative Soldier”), in acrylic, oil, watercolor, clay, silk screen, pencil, glass, fabric and mixed media, each measuring 6-x 8-inches, created by 226 artists from across the country, together with attached metal plates engraved with the rank, name, age, date of death and hometown of each fallen, and name of the artist

Display:
Mounted portraits on stainless steel rods inserted into individual base box pods (2 feet deep x 4 feet wide x 12 inches tall) constructed of Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF), painted grey to mimic the look of granite. Mounted portraits are displayed on stainless steel rods of varying heights inserted into individual base box pods (2 feet deep x 4 feet wide x 12 inches tall) also constructed of MDF and painted to match the base box pods

Arrangement:
Each pod holds 5 staggered rows of 5 portrait rods. Portraits are arranged chronologically by date of death to read by pod, top-to-bottom, left-to-right

Attendance:
Over 500,000 to December 2006

Funding:
Corporate and individual donations in excess of $250K plus significant in-kind and voluntary support

Management :
Non-Profit with 501(c)(3) status and voluntary Board of Advisors

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Q. Does Faces of the Fallen have a political position on the war in Iraq?
A. This is an exhibition of art, not a political statement. Our only position is one that all Americans share: service men and women who have given their lives in the war deserve our respect and honor.

Q. Who are the artists and what are the portraits like?
A. Over 200 artists contributed to Faces of the Fallen. They include professionals and students; they have individual styles, and they work in different media, including drawing, painting and sculpture. A distinguished curator reviewed all of the portraits to ensure that they conform to certain standards of quality, and that they treat their subjects with dignity and respect.

Q. Does Faces of the Fallen include portraits of all the service men and women who have lost their lives between October 2001 and November 2004?
A. No, unfortunately. We worked from photographs of the deceased from various sources—principally the websites of Military City and The Washington Post. No photographs were available for some of the fallen. In the absence of a photograph, service men and women who lost their lives from October 10, 2001 through November 11, 2004 are represented at the exhibit by a hand silk-screened silhouette (one for each) and identified by an attached plaque giving details of name, rank, date of death, home city and state. So that no sacrifice goes unremembered, the final panel in the exhibit represents all the many others who have died since November 11, 2004. Because of constraints imposed by space and time, we include only the portraits of military personnel.

Q. What happens if a family is not pleased with the portrait of their loved one?
A. We knew from the beginning that not every artist’s gift would please every family. Therefore the Board passed a resolution that, if requested by the designated next-of-kin, we would remove a portrait from the exhibit and replace it with a hand screened silhouette, identified by name, rank, branch of the service, and home town, along with age and date of death. The decision was taken to respect the families’ wishes and to protect the collective integrity of the exhibit and the spirit which inspired it.

Q. What will happen to the portraits after the exhibition ends?
A. The artists created the portraits as their gift to the nation and ultimately to the families. Therefore, following the end of the exhibit, each serviceman or servicewoman’s designated next of kin will receive the portrait.

The above was from the official web site at http://www.facesofthefallen.org/
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