In California, there is an exhibit filled with combat boots that can have a sobering impact on those who see it. This exhibit is called Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost Of War, and it is being displayed at CSU-Monterey Bay. This display memorializes the four hundred and fifty three Americans from California that have died in the Iraq War. Also included were one hundred and seventy five pairs of shoes from civilians to signify the number of innocent Iraqis who have died, most of them children. Seeing the sheer immensity of the shoe and combat boot display can really bring home the number of people claimed by this war.
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