Corvallis Alternatives to War


Anti-War Vigil Every Day Since 2001

THE REMEMBRANCE RUG

A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF LIVES LOST IN A DECADE OF WAR

October 8, 2011
Noon to 6 p.m. A free public display Benton County Courthouse Lawn*

In December 2003, Rodger Asai, a former Marine and Albany native, began to create

The Remembrance Rug: a Tapestry.
 Now it’s 140 feet long, includes more than 6,000 symbols representing service people and civilians who have died in connection with the war in Iraq.

It contains more than two million individual pieces of yarn, 1 million representing the estimated number of Iraqi deaths since March 2003.

The event is sponsored by Corvallis Alternatives to War, which has maintained the ongoing Courthouse daily vigil for peace since the invasion of Afghanistan 10 years ago, continuing it through the invasion of Iraq in 2003 until the present.


Remembrance Rug

Remembrance Rug


*Rainy day site: first floor atrium 760 Madison at 8th Street*

 

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