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This Memorial Day (5/25/2009) I would like to share with you a personal project of mine that uses Google Earth to honor the more than 5,700 American and Coalition servicemen and women that have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have created a map for Google Earth that will connect you with each of their stories—you can see photos, learn about how they died, visit memorial websites with comments from friends and families, and explore the places they called home and where they died.
The map requires you have Google Earth 5 installed (download link provided).
INSTRUCTIONS: (missing in article)
- After installing/updating to Google Earth 5, run it
- From the article page, use the "click here" to open the map
- Google Earth will actually download and install the map; be sure you save it, by default it goes to your My Places
WARNING: You MUST use the normal IE save-file, NOT a Download Manager plug-in
The way this map works is that it is loaded each time you open Google Earth, like any other location you have saved.
Then, when you click on a figure, a box comes up with all the public information available about that person – like where that person was killed, his/her age and links to pages about that service-person.
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