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

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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 aw ...More...
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