Photos from the October 9-11 memorial in Denver
Photos from Colorado College memorial
Genie Durland's address at the EWO press conference
Bill Durland's address at the EWO press conference
The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission sponsored (with the help of Springs Action Alliance, Citizens for Peace in Space, and Camp Casey), the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) memorial, "Eyes Wide Open: the Human Cost of War in Iraq," Thursday, October 12th and Friday, October 13th at Armstrong Quad on the Colorado College campus, Colorado Springs.
The exhibit featured:
A wall of names memorializing the estimated 100,000 Iraqis killed in the war
A field of combat boots symbolizing the 2759 US soldiers who have lost their lives
An
exhibit detailing the losses in photos and interpretive materials
A candlelight vigil was held at 7PM on Thursday, October 12
This memorial happened with the help ofmany many people!
The memorial has been to 86 cities in the United States and will stop now for winter
You can also help with a donation. Make checks payable to the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, 214 E. Vermijo Ave. C.S., Co. 80903, MEMO: EWO.
All donations are completely tax deductable. Paypal is availible PPJPC.org website
Call 632-6189
Our complete correspondence with the Colorado Springs City Council while trying to get a resolution passed in support, on which the following news articles are based
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Headlines
October 09, 2006
Information or advocacy?Some see visiting exhibit as anti-war statement
When a national touring
memorial to soldiers killed in Iraq comes to Colorado Springs this week, it
will do so without the City Council's blessing.
Council members declined to sponsor or pass a resolution for the memorial
because they think the display undermines the soldiers at war. The Eyes Wide
Open exhibit features a pair of boots for every U.S. casualty and is meant
to explore the "history, cost and consequences of the war," according
to its Web site.
Members of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, one of four groups
paying $20,000 to bring the display here, accused the council of trying to
conceal the true costs of the war. During a two-week period last month, they
exchanged heated e-mails and words with council members.
The debate over whether the council would play a part in the memorial's visit
ended when or- ganizers opted to set it up at Colorado College instead of
city-owned Memorial Park. But the issue again raised the question posed by
people from military leaders to anti-war activists: Can you support the troops
without supporting this war?
"To me, the cost of war is 3,000 lives lost in New York (on Sept. 11),
lives being lost around the world to terrorists," Colorado Springs Mayor
Lionel Rivera said. "I would much rather work toward the safety of citizens
around the world by defeating terrorism than cutting and running out of Iraq."
Michael McConnell, co-creator of the exhibit, said the exhibit does not aim
to send an anti-war message but to get people thinking about the people who
have died and why.
"We feel in making up your own mind, you have to know the reality of the
war," McConnell said. "We have to enter into the lives of the people
and read their names, read their ages . . . and then come to our own conclusion
and vote your conscience."
Eyes Wide Open has traveled the country since early 2004, displaying the boots,
as well as tags on most, with information on the soldiers. A visit to Denver
immediately preceding the Thursday and Friday stop in Colorado Springs will
mark the exhibit's first appearance in Colorado.
Volunteers read the names of the more than 2,700 fallen soldiers for five to
six hours, and an exhibit notes the lives of Iraqi citizens lost in fighting.
Organizers request no political demonstrations, and activists on both sides
of the war have respected that, Mc-Connell said.
Peace and Justice Commission members went to the council Sept. 12 seeking city
sponsorship, which would waive the group's costs for police and park use. They
also asked the council to approve a resolution declaring Oct. 12 and 13 as days
of reflection on the human cost of war.
Seeking such a resolution is rare, but Baltimore and Fort Wayne, Ind., have
supported it, McConnell said. He said he cannot remember a town that opposed
it as strongly as Colorado Springs.
Councilman Bernie Herpin, a Navy and Air Force veteran, exchanged e-mails with
organizers. In one, he called the memorial "an attempt to further undermine
our war on terrorism and to weaken our citizens' resolve to see this war through
to its end."
This brought a harsh rebuke at the Sept. 26 council meeting from Eric Verlo,
who challenged Herpin to fight in the war himself if he feels that only those
who support the war can support troops.
"If the war in Iraq . . . is indeed worth fighting, why do you want to
conceal its true costs?" Verlo said. "Is this your way to show support
for the troops, to keep their sacrifices unseen?"
When Rivera, a former Army officer, spoke of his opposition later at the meeting,
a memorial supporter shouted: "Our government is a terrorist." Exhibit
backers then left the council meeting.
All the local groups hosting the memorial -the Justice and Peace Commission,
Springs Action Alliance, Citizens for Peace in Space and Camp Casey - oppose
the war. The national sponsor, the American Friends Service Committee, is a
pacifist organization.
Relatives of about 30 soldiers have persuaded the AFSC to remove tags featuring
the names of their loved ones from boots. One of those was Melissa Givens, a
Fountain resident whose husband, Jesse, was the first Fort Carson casualty in
the war.
Givens and Crystin Bradfield, a Divide resident whose husband, Hoby, died in
Iraq last year, say their loved ones are being used as symbols for someone else's
cause. Bradfield, who also took issue with a local anti-war display using crosses
to symbolize each of the deceased, said assigning a numbered pair of boots or
cross to each soldier is depersonalizing.
McConnell noted that some families have given medals and mementos of the dead
to the exhibit to display with the boots. He thinks that by marking each soldier
individually, it gives people a chance to see them as specific lives rather
than statistics.
Givens argued, though, that supporting the troops and opposing the war are mutually
exclusive. Though she would love the fighting to end in Iraq, her husband went
to Iraq to take the war to terrorists rather than having them attack America,
she said.
"That's fine if that's what you believe in, but that's not what my husband
believed in," she said of the memorial. "But for you to use his death
to make a statement is wrong."
CONTACT THE WRITER: 636-0184 or
ed.sealover@gazette.com
THE EXHIBIT
What: A traveling national exhibit designed to make attendees think about the
human cost of the Iraq war.
Where: Colorado College's Armstrong Quad, north of Tejon and Cache La Poudre
streets.
When: Open from dawn Thursday to dusk Friday. The names of Fort Carson soldiers
killed in the war will be read at 10 p.m. Thursday.
What's there: Boots representing each of the more than 2,700 soldiers killed
in the war. Other displays include a Wall of Remembrance with the names of more
than 11,000 Iraqi civilians killed in the conflict and a multimedia exhibit
on the war.
Online: www.afsc.org/eyes
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CBS ch. 4 in Denver picks up the Eyes Wide Open Memorial controversy from the AP wire
Oct 9, 2006 6:30 am US/Mountain (CBS Denver ch. 4)
Colorado Springs Doesn't Support War Exhibit
(AP) COLORADO
SPRINGS, Colo. The Colorado Springs City Council won't offer its support
of a national touring memorial to American soldiers killed in Iraq when
it makes a stop in this city later this week, saying it undermines the war
there.
The Eyes Wide Open exhibit, which made its first Colorado appearance in
Denver on Monday, features a pair of boots for every U.S. casualty. Volunteers
read the names of more than 2,700 soldiers over several hours. The memorial,
created by the pacifist group American Friends Service Committee, will be
in Colorado Springs on Thursday and Friday.
City Council members last month rejected a resolution in support of the
memorial. The resolution would have waived the costs for police and use
of a park for the exhibit and declared Oct. 12 and 13 as days of reflection
on the human cost of the war.
"To me, the cost of war is 3,000 lives lost in New York (on Sept. 11, 2001),
lives being lost around the world to terrorists," said Mayor Lionel Rivera.
"I would much rather work toward the safety of citizens around the world
by defeating terrorism than cutting and running out of Iraq."
The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, one of four groups that paid
$20,000 to bring the exhibit to the city, accused the council of trying
to conceal the true costs of the war. Exhibit co-creator Michael McConnell
said he cannot remember a town that opposed it as strongly as Colorado Springs,
home to Fort Carson, Peterson Air Force Base and other military installations.
McConnell said the memorial is not meant to send an anti-war message, but
instead is intended to encourage people to think about those who have died
and why.
"We feel in making up your own mind, you have to know the reality of the
war," he said. "We have to enter into the lives of the people and read their
names, read their ages ... and then come to our own conclusion and vote
your conscience."
Relatives of about 30 soldiers have requested organizers to remove tags
that are accompanied with the boots bearing their names. Among them is Melissa
Givens of Fountain, whose husband, Jesse, was the first Fort Carson casualty
in the war.
Givens said she would like to see an end to the fighting in Iraq, but said
her husband went there to prevent terrorists from attacking America.
"That's fine if that's what you believe in, but that's not what my husband
believed in," she said of the memorial. "But for you to use his death to
make a statement is wrong."
NBC ch. 9 in Denver picks up Eyes Wide Open Memorial controversy from AP wire
Oct 9, 2006 6:30 am US/Mountain (CBS Denver ch. 4)
Traveling Iraq war exhibit not finding support in Colorado Springs
posted by: Sara Gandy Web Producer
Created: 10/9/2006 6:11 AM MST - Updated: 10/9/2006 6:11 AM MST
| COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) - A national touring memorial to soldiers killed in Iraq is coming to Colorado Springs this week, but the City Council says it undermines soldiers. |
The nationally-known Eyes Wide Open exhibit features a pair of boots for every US casualty. The exhibit's Internet site says the purpose is to explore the cost and consequence of war.
Despite weeks of lobbying from backers of the exhibit asking for a city resolution of support, Council declined. Mayor Lionel Rivera says he would rather the country focus on fighting terrorism than getting out of Iraq.
Organizers are holding the exhibit at Colorado College instead of a city park.
The Eyes Wide Open display is due in Colorado Springs Thursday and Friday.
War
torn
Council members withhold support for Iraq war memorial
by Naomi Zeveloff
The Eyes Wide Open exhibit, created by the Quakers' American Friends Service Committee, will visit Colorado Springs on Oct. 12 and 13. The 100,000-square-foot memorial lines up pairs of black military boots with name tags, one for each soldier killed in Iraq. The exhibit has visited more than 80 cities in the past year and a half, with several city councils sanctioning the event.
"I feel like our country needs something to heal [during] the Iraq war," says Cynthia Lang, who says she is a Fort Carson veteran. "This is a living and active memorial."
Lang, along with members of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, petitioned council at last Tuesday's meeting to designate the exhibit's short tenure "Days of Reflection on the Human Cost of War." The group asked to set up the exhibit at Memorial Park and implored council to waive parking and police fees for the event, which will cost nearly $9,000 to arrange.
While council has yet to issue an official decision, some members have already disparaged the proposal.
"No matter how you label this "memorial,' it is an attempt to further undermine our war on terrorism and to weaken our citizens' resolve to see this war through to its end," wrote Councilman Bernie Herpin last week in an e-mail to organizer Mark Lewis.
"... To attempt to place your demonstration in a park dedicated to honor those citizens and groups who have fought and died for our freedoms would be, in my opinion, disrespectful of their sacrifice and is not something that I can support or participate in," Herpin continued.
Councilman Darryl Glenn also wrote Lewis to say he would not back the memorial. In another e-mail, Mayor Lionel Rivera said that the exhibit did not appear to fit the criteria for a city-sponsored event — the likes of which have included Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo and the Balloon Classic in the past few months. Neither Glenn nor Rivera returned phone calls seeking comment.
"[The response] is more extreme than we were thinking we would get," says Lewis.
He acknowledges that the exhibit's organizers are against the war. But, he says, the memorial itself — though it includes Cindy Sheehan's donation of her son Casey's boots — has little to do with politics. AFSC, he adds, has a strict no-protest policy for all Eyes Wide Open events.
But Herpin doesn't believe they'll abide by it.
"To me," he says, "you can't separate the sponsoring organizations from their memorial."
Council, Herpin adds, already memorialized the war when it put "Support Our Troops" yellow ribbons on city vehicles last year.
His reluctance comes about a year after Rivera caused a stir by extending and then retracting city support for a community-based initiative that provides mental health care for returning soldiers from Iraq.
If Memorial Park is unavailable, Eyes Wide Open may move to Palmer Park or Armstrong Quad at Colorado College. But Lewis hopes council will come through.
"Memorializing dead people is just [beyond] politics," he says.
Eyes Wide Open Memorial front page coverage by the Gazette on Thursday
Gazette Headlines
October 13, 2006
"A FIELD OF GHOSTS "
"I don't think I can articulate any thoughts right now," said
Colorado College senior Kelly Hebrank after walking among the boots that make
up "Eyes Wide Open." (BRYAN OLLER, THE GAZETTE)
Part of the exhibit memorializes Iraqi citizens who died in the war. "I
think people should see this," said Gretchen Timmer of Denver while taking
in the display at Colorado College.
Rows of shoes represent wars cost concretely
Sam Lerman on Thursday knelt at one of the more than 2,700 pairs of military boots neatly arranged on the commons of Colorado College.Lerman slipped a bag of Haribo gummi bears in a boot bearing the name of Marine Lance Cpl. Karl Linn, 20. The German candy was Lerman’s and Linn’s favorite, one of the bonds between the two young men that was broken when Linn was killed in Iraq’s Al Anbar province.
His offering made, Lerman broke down. Through tears, he took a picture of the makeshift memorial to send to Linn’s parents in Virginia.
An hour earlier, Shanyn Doan stood quietly in front of a pair of boots bearing the name of Army Staff Sgt. Lee Freeman. Doan was holding her infant daughter. The baby’s middle name is Lee, a tribute to the 27-year-old soldier who was a neighbor of Doan’s before he shipped out to Iraq, where he was killed. Doan was thinking about her own baby and the baby the Freemans desperately wanted but now will never have.
Much may separate Lerman and Doan. But they found common ground at the “Eyes Wide Open” memorial sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization long devoted to pacifism. The memo- rial in Colorado Springs, which ends at 3 p.m. today, is the last stop in a year-and-a-half tour of more than 80 cities.
Lerman, 19, is a Colorado College student and an Air Force reservist at Peterson Air Force Base. On Wednesday, the close-cropped Lerman wore a jacket that bore the saying “Security Forces Never Die — They Just Go to Hell To Regroup.” Lerman was deployed to the South in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and he suspects he’ll see Iraq sooner or later.
And he’ll go, he said. It’s his duty.
“Regardless of my own personal political beliefs, I believe in our democratic system, and I’m committed to defending it,” he said.
Doan is executive director of the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, an organization that helped pay to bring the memorial to Colorado Springs. And Doan makes no bones about her belief that the Iraq War is a horrible waste of human life. But through her friendship with her military neighbors, she came to understand that Lee Freeman thought serving in Iraq was the best way he could make a difference.
“He was committed to doing his job,” Doan said of Freeman, who planned to make a career in the military. “He died doing something he believed in with his heart and soul.”
Doan and Lerman also found common ground in their belief that the memorial with its row upon row of neatly placed boots — and an accompanying display of shoes symbolizing the deaths of Iraqi civilians — was a powerful sight.
“It’s like standing in a field of ghosts — there should be people in these boots,” said Doan.
Lerman said the display “makes me grieve for every family member and every friend of the fallen soldiers.”
“I’m also glad to see it at a place like CC, where many students don’t have much exposure to the military or war,” said Lerman, who thinks he’s one of only three reservists at the private liberal arts college.
The memorial sparked a minor controversy last month, when Doan’s organization asked the Colorado Springs City Council to sponsor the display at Memorial Park. Council members refused, saying they thought the display would undermine soldiers at war.
The opinions of politicians, whether in the Springs or in Washington, D.C., were far from the mind of Lerman on Thursday. For him, the day was about his friend, Lance Cpl. Linn, and Linn’s parents and younger brother, Tan. Lerman said Linn was a “brilliant” engineering student at Virginia Commonwealth University.
“He could build anything with anything,” Lerman said. “And he loved his gummi bears.”
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
“Eyes Wide Open” will be on display in the commons of Colorado College until 3 p.m. today.
The memorial features neatly arranged boots and shoes that symbolize U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians killed since Iraq was invaded in 2003. The memorial is the work of the Quaker organization American Friends Service Committee and was brought to Colorado Springs by four local peace and justice organizations.
During the memorial’s stay at Colorado College, the names of all 2,750-plus service members killed in Iraq will be read aloud. A 1 p.m. news conference today will feature speakers from Christian Peacekeepers and Veterans for Peace.
Volunteers are needed to help remove the thousands of shoes and boots beginning at 3 p.m.
3 Eyes Wide Open Memorial committee member's letters to the editor
Opinion
October 12, 2006
Council can't handle truth about war's human costs
Colorado Springs is apparently one of the top communities in the nation to live. I moved here in July and am now wondering about those reports.
A "number one community" to me is open and truthful. Truth is sometimes uncomfortable, but in an open society, it is necessary. The American Friends Service Committee is bringing an exhibit to Colorado Springs that symbolizes stark truth: More than 2,750 pairs of combat boots on the ground, representing each precious life lost in the Iraq war ("Information or advocacy? / Some see visiting exhibit as antiwar statement," The Gazette, Oct. 9). How is our city leadership welcoming this exhibit? It is not.
I am appalled at the response of local leaders to the Eyes Wide Open exhibit. According to Monday’s Gazette, Councilman Bernie Herpin “called the memorial ‘an attempt to further undermine our war on terrorism and to weaken our citizens’ resolve to see this war through to its end.’ ” I would ask how the physical presence of more than 2,750 pairs of boots representing American lives lost in Iraq will “undermine our citizens’ resolve.” If our resolve to see the war through is lost because of these boots, then there was no resolve to begin with.
War is death and loss — the reality local military families must deal with every day. This is the truth. The Eyes Wide Open exhibit is the truth — a reality Colorado Springs leadership apparently chooses to ignore.
Sarah Herbert Colorado Springs
Public should see display and decide for themselves
The disturbing thing is not so much that the City Council, following the unelected Bernie Herpin, chose not to pass a resolution in support of two days of reflection on the human cost of war, or that members refused to waive the fees for handicapped parking and bathrooms for our disabled vets attending the memorial. It's not even that they wouldn't provide extra police security to protect the costly memorial from vandals.
No, the most disturbing thing is that they use the tired old excuses of the neocon minority of the Republican Party since the 9/11 attack, which, of course, the idiot Saddam had nothing to do with.
The American people are perfectly able to make up their minds when they have all the facts at their disposal. Hiding these empty boots, hiding the flag-draped caskets, hiding the truth about the absence of WMD, hiding the truth about the lack of a connection between al-Qaida and Saddam - that's what it takes to get people to reluctantly support this foreign policy for a short amount of time.
These boots are the truth of what this disaster has brought us and our nation. If people are going to decide on interventionism and imperialism as foreign policy, then let them do it with their Eyes Wide Open.
Of course, the truth will always lead them to an alternative to violence, war and invasion.
Mark Lewis, Colorado Springs
Quakers a sponsor of traveling boots memorial
The Gazette article on the Eyes Wide Open memorial headlined an either-or
choice between "information" or "advocacy" and reported
that "all the local groups hosting the memorial oppose the war."
The local Quaker Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends opposes all wars,
as pacifists, and is a sponsor and a financial contributor to this event.
Moreover, many of us across the nation, as well as in Colorado Springs, see
this event as it is primarily described "a memorial" and not an
essentially media informational event nor an advocacy opportunity. It is intended
to be a very spiritual and reflective time to stop, think and mourn the mass
killing of humans by one another.
Bill and Genie Durland
Colorado Springs Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Genie Durland's address at the EWO press conference
Bill Durland's address at the EWO press conference
Boots tell haunting tale of losses in Iraq
From a distance, it looks like a lot of nothing, or at least - based on what both papers had said - a little oversold.
Just boots.
Even so, you get out of the car, cross the street and wade in. It took most people, by my totally unscientific study, about five minutes before the first teardrop fell.
I hadn't planned on this, to write of "Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War," the display in Civic Center of 2,748 pairs of combat boots, each representing a soldier who has died in the Iraq War.
I was driving past the park when I noticed it. I'd been to the war, knew guys who had fallen.
OK, I figured, let's just see how accurate this is, see if they had every dead soldier's name. I went looking for one in particular.
They envelop you, the boots do. It is an odd thing. The soldiers whose names are attached to each pair never wore them. Yet you stare.
Each pair sits exactly four feet from the next, all of them positioned in long, perfectly aligned rows.
"People say it looks like a cemetery, Arlington National, mostly," said Claire Ryder, the exhibit's volunteer coordinator.
"I say it's worse because it is boots, with names, photos, memories and actual lives attached."
Maybe that accounts for the haunting feeling. The faces of the dead stare out from many of the boots in large, laminated color photographs - many are Army-issue portraits, in which the soldier is unsmiling.
Teddy bears, plastic
flowers and American flags adorn some. Sunflowers and Halloween candy are
stuffed in one pair, both placed there by the dead soldier's mother, who had
flown in from California a day earlier to see the exhibit.
The American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, has shown the exhibit in more than 80 U.S. cities. Colorado is its last stop this year.
The committee keeps a large stock of tissues that volunteers, who include ministers and psychologists, keep in hand as they slowly walk the perimeter of the display.
Families of the dead added the mementos to the boots at each of the exhibit's previous stops. Some are quite elaborate and include family photographs of the soldiers holding their young children.
The most haunting is what is attached to the boots of Lt. Col. Mark D. Taylor, a surgeon attached to the 82nd Airborne Division.
In a now-laminated
e-mail to friends on Jan. 30, 2004, he wrote:
"It is very hostile over here, and we have done over 170 trauma cases over the last five months. Sometimes the Iraqis shoot mortars or rockets at us, but usually they miss. I probably will be coming home in April, so hopefully we can get together.
"See you soon. Mark."
Scheduled to fly home March 25, Dr. Mark Taylor died March 20, 2004, when an enemy rocket hit the telephone booth he had just entered. He was placing a call home to his parents. He was 41.
"I think what gets you are the ages," Claire Ryder says, barely holding back her own tears. "It gets to everybody here."
Ann Griffin, 20, of
Thornton, is softly weeping along with her friend, Zeta Conner, 23, of Denver.
She had come to see the boots of her husband's best friend, Lance Cpl. Andrew
Riedel, 19, of Northglenn, whom she'd known since childhood. He was killed
in a roadside bomb explosion Oct. 30, 2004.
"It's so powerful and moving," Ann Griffin says. "I've never thought they got enough recognition. It's so humbling, so heartbreaking."
They stay for more than a half-hour, searching for Andrew Riedel's name. Although the boots are arranged by state, they could not find his name in the Colorado section.
Jody Luna, 53, of Denver, is slowly making her way through the boots. She had read of the exhibit, never figuring for a second the effect it would have on her once she began walking through it.
"You can actually picture the people the boots represent," she says slowly. "It's so sad, just to see the ages."
American Friends purchased
nearly all of the boots. Veterans, too, often show up, run home, grab their
old boots and donate them.
The mother of Spc. Thomas I. Sweet II, 23, of North Dakota, who died in a roadside blast on Nov. 27, 2003, purchased all 13 sets of desert combat boots that represent the deaths of North Dakota soldiers in the war.
Off to the side, too, is a collection of hundreds of civilian shoes that surround a circular poster-board display of smiling Iraqis in huge color photographs.
The shoes represent the hundreds of thousands of civilian Iraqis who have died in the war.
On the other side of the color posters are stark, black-and-white photographs of wailing Iraqis cradling or holding their dead. You just stare.
I did, finally, find the name I had come searching for attached to a nearly brand-new pair of boots.
A simple white plastic flower and a small Colorado flag protruded from them. The small white attached card simply gave his rank, name, age, and state of birth.
I'll just say here that I saluted the boots and said a little prayer. I'll leave it at that.
Bill Johnson's column appears Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Call him at 303-954-2763 or e-mail him at johnsonw@RockyMountainNews.com
Names and Bios of Colorado's fallen:
Corporal
Benjamin Hoeffner, Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Staff
Sergeant Michael Parrott, Timnath, Colorado
Lance
Corporal Thomas Slocum, Thornton, Colorado
Staff
Sergeant Gavin Reinke, Pueblo, Colorado
Private
First Class Shawn Atkins, Parker, Colorado
Private
First Class Andrew Riedel, Northglenn, Colorado
Sergeant
Larry Pankey, Morrison, Colorado
Sergeant
Michael Yashinski, Monument, Colorado
Specialist
Christopher Sitton, Montrose, Colorado
Lance
Corporal Chad Maynard, Manzanola, Colorado
Sergeant
First Class Randal Rehn, Longmont, Colorado
Staff
Sergeant Theodore Holder, Littleon, Colorado
Petty
Officer Second Class, Danny Dietz, Littleton, Colorado
Sergeant
First Class Daniel Romero, Lafayette, Colorado
Specialist
Travis Anderson, Hooper, Colorado
Staff
Sergeant Christopher Falkel, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Staff
Sergeant Mark Lawton, Hayden, Colorado
Lance
Corporal Evanor Herrera, Gypsum, Colorado
Staff
Sergeant Michael Shackleford, Grand Junction, Colorado
Private
First Class Henry Risner, Golden, Colorado
Specialist
Dave Wilson, Fountain, Colorado
Private
First Class Tyler MacKenzie, Evans, Colorado
Lance
Corporal Jeremy Tamburello, Denver, Colorado
Private
First Class George Geer, Cortez, Colorado
Private
First Class Ryan Reed, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Sergeant
Douglas Bascom, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Staff
Sergeant Daniel Bader, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Private
First Class Chance Phelps, Clifton, Colorado
Lance
Corporal Mark Engle, Centennial, Colorado
Sergeant
Thomas Broomhead, Canon City, Colorado
Specialist
Derrick Lutters, Burlington, Colorado
Staff
Sergeant Barry Sanford, Aurora, Colorado
Sergeant
Luis Reyes, Aurora, Colorado
Sergeant Dimitri
Muscat, Aurora, Colorado
Captain
Russel Rippetoe, Arvada, Colorado
Captain
Ian Weikel, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Names
and Bios of Fort Carson's Killed In Action:
Adams,
1st Lt. Michael R.
Allen,
Spc. Ronald D.
Arcand,
Pfc. Elden D.
Bader,
Staff Sgt. Daniel A.
Bertolino,
Staff Sgt. Stephen A.
Bradfield,
Spc. Hoby F.
Brazee,
Spc. Joshua T.
Bright,
Staff Sgt. Scottie L.
Broomhead,
Sgt. Thomas F.
Brown,
Staff Sgt. Jeremy a.
Bucklew,
Sgt. Ernest G.
Bucklin,
Spc. Brock L.
Byers,
Capt. Joshua T.
Cambridge,
Cpl. Lyle J.
Carl,
Cpl. Richard P.
Chisolm,
Sgt. Tyrone L.
Coleman,
Cpl. Gary B.
Dallas,
Spc. Ernest W.
Dampier,
Pfc. Grant A.
deMoors,
1st Lt. Joseph D.
Diraimondo,
Spc. Michael A.
Dooley,
Sgt. Micheal E.
Eacho,
Sgt. 1st Class Donald W.
Edmundson,
Spc. Phillip C.
Faunce,
Capt. Brian
Ferguson,
Spc. Rian C.
Ferguson,
Master Sgt. Richard L.
Flint,
Staff Sgt. Marion J.
Freeman,
Pvt. Benjamin L.
Freeman,
Staff Sgt. Brian L.
Gallardo,
Sgt. Denis J.
Givens,
Pfc. Jesse A.
Golby,
Spc. Christopher A.
Goldberg,
Spc. David J.
Grimes,
Capt. Sean
Gukeisen,
Chief Warrant Officer Hans N.
Hay,
Chief Warrant Officer Dennis P.
Hornbeck,
Master Sgt. Kelly L.
Hoskins,
Spc. Christopher L.
Howard,
Staff Sgt. Curtis T.
Howard,
Spc. Walter B.
Idalski,
Spc. Nicholas R.
Jennings,
Spc. Darius T.
Johnson,
CWO Philip A.
Kendall, Cpl. Dustin L.
Kinslow,
Spc. Anthony D.
Knott,
Pvt. Joseph L.
Kubasak,
Spc. Jared W.
Kuhns,
Sgt. Larry R.
La
Bouff, Maj Douglas A.
Laskowski,
CWO Matthew C.
Latham,
Staff Sgt. William T.
Mack,
Pfc. Vorn J.
Madaras,
Pfc. Nicholas A.
Manuel,
CWO Ian D.
Martinez,
Spc. Joseph L.
Martinez,
Capt. Michael R.
McGowan,
Cpl. Stephen M.
Miller,
Staff Sgt. Frederick L.
Misner,
Sgt. Gordon F.
Mitchell,
Sgt. Keman L.
Montefering,
Staff Sgt. Jason W.
Monzon,
Sgt. Milton M.
Mora,
Spc. Jose L.
Morris,
Staff Sgt. Brian L.
Muldoon,
Sgt. James P.
Murray,
Pfc. Robert W.
Muscat,
Sgt. Dimitri
Negron,
Sgt. Julio E.
Niedermeier,
Spc. Louis E.
Paliwoda,
Capt. Eric T.
Panchot,
Staff Sgt. Dale A.
Pearrow,
Sgt. 1st Class Eric P.
Penisten,
Spc. Brian H.
Phelps,
Sgt. 1st Class Christopher W.
Poelman,
Spc. Eric J.
Pokorny,
Staff Sgt. Andrew R.
Pollard,
Spc. Justin W.
Pope,
Spc. Robert C.
Prince,
Sgt. 1st Class Neil A.
Quinn,
Staff Sgt. Michael B.
Ramos,
Spc. Tamarra
Reyes,
Pfc. Mario A.
Robles,
Spc. Lizbeth
Rockholt,
Spc. Ricky W.
Rubado,
2nd Lt. Charles R.
Sanchez,
Staff Sgt. Alberto V.
Santos,
Spc. Luis D.
Saxton,
Sgt. Stephen P.
Schram,
Maj. Mathew E.
Scott,
Spc. Stephen M.
Simpson,
Sgt. Jacob M.
Smith,
1st. Lt. Justin S.
Smith,
Spc. Michael J.
Soriano,
Pfc. Armando
Sutton,
Sgt. Timothy J.
Swaney,
Pfc. Robert A.
Twyman,
Spc. Wade Michael
Ulbrich,
Pfc. Brian S.
Valles,
Sgt. Melissa
Van
Dusen, Chief Warrant Officer Brian K.
Vasquez,
Staff Sgt. Justin L.
Vaughn,
Spc. Brian A.
Villatoro,
Pfc. Ramon A.
Walker,
Sgt. Antwan L.
Wells,
CWO Stephen M.
Wilkerson,
Sgt. Charles T.
Williams,
Cpl. Jeffrey A.
Williams,
Spc. Ronnie D.
Williams,
Sgt. Taft V.
Wilwerth,
Spc. Thomas J.
Wolf,
Spc. James R.
Woods,
Pfc. Eric P.
Worster,
Sgt. James R.