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Weekly Public Reading of the Death Toll of Coalition Forces and Iraqis in the Iraq War.

Every Tuesday at 5:30 PM, we join in front of U.S. Military Recruitment Center, Main Street, Oneonta to read a list of each of the past week's Coalition Forces deaths by name, age, rank, military unit, home town and circumstances and place of death, as compiled by the Department of Defense and a list of the week's Iraqi fatalities by incident as compiled by icasualties.com from Reuters, AP, and other news sources.

Before reading the Coalition Forces fatalities we read our Statement of Purpose:

We gather to recognize the sacrifice made by these brave men and women and to exercise our Constitutional right to assemble and publicly express our grievance against a government which mendaciously sends our youth to fight and die in an unjust, illegal and catastrophic war against a people who had done us no harm.
Before reading the list of incidents resulting in Iraqi deaths, we read the following quotation from IRAQ BODY COUNT, an independent public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention by the USA and its allies:

Please give due honour to the unidentified dead whose numbers far exceed named victims. There is no organized effort to name the victims of the war. Only when all have been identified and duly recorded can there be any talk of respecting their memory. To those who knew and loved them, and are in no need of reminding, we offer our condolences.

For further information, contact Carole Marner, 607-829-8451

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updated 6/28/07