This past Saturday, starting at 6 a.m., I began placing pairs of empty combat boots on the Ellipse within sight of the White House. I worked alongside members of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), Veterans for Peace, and Iraq Veterans Against the War to install one set of boots for each US soldier killed in Afghanistan. By the time we finished, six hours after we began, we learned that we had to add three more. The names of three additional US soldiers killed in Afghanistan had been announced while we worked.
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