The Crosses of Lafayette

In November of 2006 residents of Lafayette, CA and neighboring towns began to put up crosses above Deer Hill Rd acoss from the Lafayette commuter rail station and Highway 24. The crosses were meant to represent and memorialize the American soldiers who have died in the ongoing Iraqi war. Volunteers added many crosses every Sunday and December 31st more than 1,000 crosses had gone, by March 2007 there was a cross for every fallen soldier, 3,100 at the time. By Monday August 2007, a cross has been put up for each of the 3600 troops who have died. During its existence the memorial has rallied awareness of the cost of the Iraqi war and and garnered wide media coverage for the peace movement. However, it has also evoked anger, contreversy, legal threats, acts of vandalism and more recently, counter protests.

This youtube page is a multimedia exploration of this Lafayette, CA memorial to the growing number US soldiers killed in Iraq.

Bring the troops home!

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