Comments on Map the Fallen: Map the Fallen launched!

I dont think i will get lost this time on tracking...

2011-08-08T07:24:31.398-07:00

I dont think i will get lost this time on tracking.
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Well… round about every blog posts online don’t ha...

2011-07-17T06:20:37.060-07:00

Well… round about every blog posts online don’t have much originality as I found on yours.. Just keep updating much useful information so that reader like me would come back over and over again.
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Well… round about every blog posts online don’t ha...

2011-07-14T01:23:16.198-07:00

I've been agonizing for a long time about how ...

2009-12-19T12:32:14.249-08:00

I've been agonizing for a long time about how it is that we have been fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan simultaneously for over 8 years and remained seemingly indifferent to the mounting number of casualties sustained by our soldiers, some of them barely 21 years old. We were encouraged by the Bush Administration to just go about our business. It was, after all, a "professional" war of choice fought by "professional" soldiers who chose to do a job well aware of all the risks.
The "Map of the Fallen" is a great project that is doing a much needed service to the seemingly unengaged public by allowing them to experience and KNOW the faces and lives and the the level of sacrifice and heroism these real human beings have sustained for a cause that continues to remain elusive and ambiguous.
I thank you for making us know and feel the losses enough to want to make every effort to enter the debate on the "usefulness" of these wars and recognize in the faces of so many fallen soldiers our own. Thank you for giving a powerful contemporary application to John Donne's "Meditation 17" that "No man is an island entire of itself; everyman is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Carmen A. Casís, Professor Emerita, Regis University, Denver, Colorado

I love Kevin's line. If money was no object, ...

2009-12-04T06:36:06.903-08:00

I love Kevin's line. If money was no object, I would invest in a Memorial complex called "The Dash Between Them Center."

Great job! Amazing project.

2009-12-01T18:27:13.194-08:00

Great job! Amazing project.

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When I open it, there are only two people listed f...

2009-08-18T09:24:03.393-07:00

When I open it, there are only two people listed for Idaho. I know of someone that I cannot find on here.

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Sean, This is an awesome tribute to the men and w...

2009-08-02T05:58:23.377-07:00

Sean,

This is an awesome tribute to the men and women who have given their all so we here at home can enjoy our lives.

Please keep up this impressive project, but I pray one day, soon, it will come to an end. A heart felt thankyou goes out to you and your team of volunteers for this project.

Thank you for all your work to put this together. ...

2009-07-14T18:08:30.670-07:00

Thank you for all your work to put this together. It is beautiful.

This is a call to everyone to please step outside ...

2009-07-10T14:28:04.247-07:00

This is a call to everyone to please step outside the right vs. left paradigm. While there are important issues worth debating within this paradigm, all of them will be moot if we do not focus on a much greater issue outside this paradigm. Thomas Jefferson warned of wealth concentrating to such an extent that it threatened the state. Nowadays the media has taught us all very well to ridicule anyone who talks of central banks usurping the power of government. Well now I suppose the media will have to laugh at themselves, as many outlets from Newsweek to the Financial Times of London are openly discussing the creation of a "bank of the world" that will control economic policies of every nation. I invite you to watch this video, which details how this is currently taking place. While it focuses on our current officials' cooperation with these plans, it steps out of the typical political paradigm by highlighting the cooperation of both parties. Please do not look to politicians to protect us. Only we can protect us. And our first step must be to reach out to police and military. Without their cooperation, the global elite won't have the muscle to exercise their will of oppression. Please share this oath-keepers blog with them.

As an ex service man I would like to Thank you for...

2009-06-15T20:18:50.725-07:00

As an ex service man I would like to Thank you for all the work that was done putting this Memorial together. A special Prayer goes out to all the families that lost their child while they sacrifice their lives.

What an amazing contribution!!!

2009-06-07T19:18:46.254-07:00

What an amazing contribution!!!

Oh Wow! That is one cool project!

2009-06-04T17:32:49.163-07:00

Oh Wow! That is one cool project!

what an ambitious & moving venture - an honora...

2009-06-03T19:22:41.945-07:00

what an ambitious & moving venture - an honorable tribute to those who have fallen . . .

Thanks, Sean. I thought I had done that, but obvi...

2009-06-03T06:25:13.625-07:00

Thanks, Sean. I thought I had done that, but obviously, I hadn't.
Thank you for this work.
LaDawn

@LaDawn Hi there. You need to download the map fr...

2009-06-02T17:41:56.220-07:00

@LaDawn

Hi there. You need to download the map from this website. Look for the "Click here to download map" link at the upper right of the main page of www.mapthefallen.org

Sean

Okay, I must be more computer illiterate than I th...

2009-06-02T10:36:05.515-07:00

Okay, I must be more computer illiterate than I thought. I've gone to the community forums at googleearth.com and I've looked all through the actual map, and I can't find this casualties list. What am I doing wrong?

impressive project

2009-06-02T09:33:03.267-07:00

impressive project

@TRUTH459 Roger, are you volunteering to help wit...

2009-06-02T01:06:48.489-07:00

@TRUTH459

Roger, are you volunteering to help with these other conflicts?

I certainly agree with you... this isn't a map of everyone who has ever died in service to this country.

I am limited to data that is publicly available. And I can guarantee you that there are no public sources of deaths for CIA, NSA, Black Ops. With those organizations, by their very nature, we will probably never know who died.

Of course casualties from WW1+2, Korea, Vietnam and casualties from other conflicts count. HOWEVER, this data isn't as rich and easily available.

Vietnam and Korea certainly have lists of casualties and their hometowns. This could be mapped. But there is not additional information, like place or cause of death, photos, etc. You would be looking at just a name on the map. One might argue that this is very impersonal. So the solution there would be to create a system where families could submit information.

WWII: take a look for yourself... This data isn't even digitized yet, meaning it's not possible to map:
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/army-casualties/

Also, I am a single person doing this in my free time. So I can't possibly map every person who has died in a military conflict.

I chose to focus on OEF/OIF because this is my generation's war, and because we don't yet have the equivalent of a national memorial for everyone, like the Vietnam Wall. There is a lot of good information out there for each of these soldiers, which lends itself towards a powerful, respectful and informative project.

sean

In the past, those who sought to examine and publi...

2009-06-01T21:00:28.614-07:00

In the past, those who sought to examine and publish statistics military deaths were considered anti-war, anti-military and disloyal. Your project proves that it is a powerful way to honor the fallen.

Thank you for you effort but I must say that IT IS...

2009-06-01T15:03:54.375-07:00

Thank you for you effort but I must say that IT IS INCOMPLETE!

There are CIA, NSA, Black Ops and MANY Others THAT HAVE GIVEN their LIVES... in the Service and Protection of this Country.

What about all the Veterans from WW 1+2, Korea, Vietman and ALL Other Conflicts. You MISSED them, or DON'T THEY COUNT...?

HISTORY usually ONLY counts the DAY, not the Complete COST!

Thanks, Roger.

I have created a poem in commemoration to the u.s ...

2009-06-01T12:14:37.469-07:00

I have created a poem in commemoration to the u.s troops and any other soldiers. Check it out.

Hope you don't mind my following! What a great job...

2009-06-01T07:48:03.568-07:00

Hope you don't mind my following! What a great job you've done on compiling so much informative research on such important subjects! I love that you included the Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. That's near and dear to my heart.Keep up the good work! xo~

Dear Sean, I almost wept when I stumbled onto you...

2009-05-31T19:30:47.805-07:00

Dear Sean,

I almost wept when I stumbled onto your amazing work on behalf of our Gold Star Families.

For the past 4 years, our nonprofit has been assisting families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan and Iraq document their lives in the form of "digital stories" that are being shared with schools, museums, libraries, memorials and the general public at www.Stories-of-Service.org.

The Stories of the Fallen.

We recently returned from Washington, D.C. where we announced a partnership with the White House Commission on Remembrance to expand this program to as many of the 5,700 families who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that the lives of their loved ones are forever a part of America's permanent memory.

We would like to discuss with you how we might collaborate with the wonderful work that you are doing.

Please contact us at warren@digiclub.org or 408-857-5252, so that we might discuss possible next steps.

In the meantime, thank you for the wonderful work that you are doing to help us all better understand and appreciate the sacrifices of the fallen.

Warren Hegg
President and Founder
Digital Clubhouse Network
"using the power of digital technology to build a better 21st century community"