Shoes for Industry

This is an old line from the Fireside Theater, but I'm afraid this post is intended to be anything but funny. There is a traveling exhibit with the name Eyes Wide Open traveling the United States. It will be in Ohio tomorrow, but today it is here in my town.

The exhibit is extremely simple; they have a pair of army boots for each soldier killed this far in the war.



It says something about the character of the times when an exhibit like this, honoring those who gave their lives in the service of their country is something rebellious. Now, to be fair, this is a political exhibit, with a political goal. But the political side is kept, deliberately I suspect, very low key.



Of course this being an exhibit for peace, there is also a representation of the Iraqi dead, limited to a thousand pairs of shoes (although the actual number of Iraqi dead is likely to be much higher.