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Eyes Wide Open Exhibit is Coming to Cold Spring
The impact of the Iraq War on New York State is the focus of the exhibit Eyes Wide Open: New York. This exhibit features over 117 pairs of combat boots memorializing the U.S. soldiers from New York who have fallen in the Iraq War. A display of shoes represents the thousands of Iraqi civilian causalities.
The Philipstown Worship Group (Quakers) is sponsoring the exhibit. It will be on display from Saturday, October 14 to Sunday, October 15 at Fair Street and Northern Avenue in Cold Spring, from 10am to 5pm. Eyes Wide Open will be traveling around the state, through the spring of 2007.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an international social justice organization, originally created Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War to illustrate the lives lost in the war in Iraq. The national exhibit now includes more than 2,700 pairs of combat
boots representing U.S. military casualties, along with over 3,000 pairs of shoes memorializing a small fraction of the Iraqi civilians who have been killed in the conflict. The exhibit, which first opened in Chicago with 500 pairs of boots in January 2004, continues to grow as the death toll rises. The tour has been to more than 70 cities across the country, including Boston, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York City, Orlando, and Washington DC.
Eyes Wide Open: New York is free and open to the public, although donations are accepted. Further details of the exhibit can be found at www.afsc.org/nymetro.htm. For more information, contact James O'Barr at 265-0032 or Kathie Scanlon at 265-9335, or the AFSC New York Metropolitan Region office in New York at 212-598-0950.
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