In the afternoon there was a display of the Remembrance Rug, a latch-hook rug done by Rodger Asai from Albany to remember all the people, American, Iraqi, and others, who have died because of the war on Iraq. There is a design in the rug, such as a cross or a triangle, for named individuals. Rodger associates the countless strands of yarn in the rug with the million-plus Iraqi casualties of the war.
It was several years after the Vietnam War ended that the United States erected the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington. We are "fortunate" to have a memorial before the end of fighting in Iraq.
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