Welcome

Update: New Photos have been added (4-23-2008). You can view them at the Images page.

Since the invasion of Iraq, over 4,000 American lives have been lost. Each of them had a name, a life, a family. On the early morning of Tuesday April 22th. 2008, we began the process of paying tribute to them. Late that night before a field of 2,400 flags, placed in straight rows, something took shape. Starting before dawn, the list of names began, name, rank, hometown, we read until late in the evening, each name read only once. We couldn’t stop until every name was read and every soldier remembered.

This website is part of the Tribute which grew out of that event.

In our group, the UNO College Democrats, we have brothers, sisters, and wives of those serving on the ground in Iraq right now. In our group we have members of the Army, sons and daughters of veterans, and future enlistees. We are fiercely patriotic. We have those who oppose the war, and those who support it.

But now, all of us, and hopefully all who see the flags, come to this website, hear this message, and are united to pay tribute to those who have given their lives.

If you pray, please pray for the fallen and their families today. If not, use this chance to pause, remember and respect those same soldiers, those patriots.

While this Tribute is sponsored by the UNO College Democrats, it is a nonpartisan event. If there is a political message, it is only the undeniable weight with which each American life must be considered, the undeniable tragedy of so many lives lost.

And yet, despite our divisions, we are one nation, all in this together, with liberty and justice for each among us.

Every individual flag represents a man or woman who fought and died for these ideals and beliefs.

For that, we owe them eternal gratitude. We owe them respect.

We owe it to them to remember their sacrifice, to pay our Tribute to The Fallen.