Interactive Map Honors Fallen Soldiers Of Iraq And Afghanistan

By: Mose Farber
Topics: Iraq

(CBS)

Although Memorial Day is meant to honor all American fallen soldiers, one man took it upon himself to honor the most recent soldiers who died in action.

Google engineeer Sean Askay, with research and the help of the Google Earth team, created "Map of the Fallen," which pinpoints the locations where the 5,700 American and coalition force soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The interactive map (which requires Google Earth 5.0) also traces the lines connecting each of the fallen soldiers to their hometown and can be viewed chronologically, starting with the first death in Afghanistan of a U.S. soldier on Oct. 10, 2001.

In addition, Map of the Fallen is searchable by name, gender, age, hometown, or location of death, and includes photos of the soldiers, information on how they died, a guest book for visitors and links to memorial sites and obituaries.

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by mattcat25 May 24, 2009 9:14 PM EDT: The Republican Party desires that the United States participate in a never ending perpetual state of war.

The worst terror attack against the US took place on September 11th during the Cheney/Bush Administration since then, the GOP has ruined our economy, diverted $billions to private entities, lost jobs and reduced the living standard of average working Americans, along with all these deaths.

War Mongering and perpetual military action only benefits the very wealthy and is desastrous to the average Americans as we've all experienced during the Conservative Agenda.

If the Republican Party is successful at acheiving their goals future generations will never think twice at a permanant war society.; Reply to this comment