JVP-South Bay supports "Eyes Wide Open"
The South Bay chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace supported the Eyes Wide Open exhibit as it made a stop at City Hall in Palo Alto, from May 2nd to May 4th, 2008.
Created by the American Friends Service Committee, EWO is an attempt to make tangible the true human cost of the Iraq War. The lost lives of California servicemen and servicewomen are represented by a pair of combat boots, one for each lost life.
Iraqi civilians are represented by civilian shoes, arranged in a spiral pattern.
JVP members stood vigils to watch over the exhibit during the late night and early morning shifts, and took part in the reading of the names of servicepeople and Iraqi civilians at the concluding ceremonies. Below, Reverend Diana Gibson, of JVP parter and exhibit host Multifaith Voices for Peace, provides concluding remarks, after which "Taps" was sounded.
Eyes Wide Open exhibit
One serviceperson\'s boots
One pair of boots per lost life of a California serviceperson
Shoes representing lost lives of Iraqi civilians
Closing cerimonies
Taps concludes the exhibit