Memorial Day post (No.1)

"Where Iraq and Afghanistan war dead came from"

Over at LAObserved.com, blogger Kevin Roderick shares this item from CNN:

CNN's website has an interactive map of all 5,485 U.S. deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, each dot loaded with personal information and corresponding to a dot on war zone maps. "It's been a privilege to work on this project for seven years but it's a privilege that I wish didn't exist," CNN's Douglas Wood says in a blog post about the project.