Faded Yellow Magnets

Conclusion to the Faded Yellow Ribbon Magnets project

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The Faded Yellow Ribbon Magnet project started three weeks ago. This will be the final post in the series.

In the past twenty days, 24 American soldiers and approximately 5,088 Iraqi civilians have lost their lives.  Also, the US military has spent over five billion dollars to maintain the occupation of Iraq.

Five billion.  To put this into perspective:  20 days of occupation costs more money than what our government spends on vocational education, financial crimes enforcement, the Food and Drug Administration, and housing for the elderly - COMBINED.

The human cost is incalculable, but no one seems to talk about it much. 

What do we have to show for all this loss of life, equipment and treasure?

Faded yellow ribbon magnets.

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Addendum: As much as possible all the pictures in this series had three features in common: 1) They had to be ribbon magnets. 2) The magnets had to be faded, or in poor shape. 3) The magnets should have originally had a yellow component.

This last set of pictures did not meet the criteria, but I thought they were interesting so I'm posting them here for you.

Happy 3rd Anniversary America!

I hope I don't have to do this project again next year.

Cross magnetWindow sticker ribbon

War is not an energy policy.

Question War
Hummer with ribon next to gas tank.

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Special thanks to the anonymous Brainshrub reader from San Luis Obispo, California who emailed me the last picture of the Hummer.

Faded Yellow Magnet #14

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, three more soldiers has been confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is now 2312.

Faded Magnet #14

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Faded Yellow Magnet #13

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, one more soldier has been confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is now 2309.

Faded Yellow Magnet #13

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Faded Yellow Magnet #12

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, no new soldiers have been confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is still 2308.

Faded Magnet #12

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Faded Yellow Magnet #11

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, one more soldier has been confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is now 2308.

Faded Yellow Magnet #11

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Faded Yellow Magnet #10

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, one more soldier has been confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is now 2307.

Faded Yellow Magnet #10

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Faded Yellow Magnet #09

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, no new soldiers were confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is still 2306.

Faded Yellow Magnet #9

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Faded Yellow Magnet #08

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, four more soldiers were confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is now 2306.

Faded yellow magnet #8

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Faded Yellow Magnet #07

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, one more soldier was confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is now 2302.

Faded yellow magnet #7

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Faded Yellow Magnet #06

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In the time since the last yellow faded magnet was posted on this blog, no new soldiers were confirmed killed in Iraq by the DoD.

The total is still 2301.

Faded Magnet #6

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