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"I think it's hard to go to war because when you go and somebody shoots you, you die and somebody sends you dead to your house. Your parents don't know that you're dead."
Nathaly, 3rd Grade, Cypress Hills Community School, Brooklyn, NY. Quilt square in honor of Jesse Zamora, 22,Company B, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, Las Cruces, N.M., killed in Beiji, Iraq, when a roadside bomb blew up near his Humvee on February 3, 2006.

The following quilt squares were sent to us from a group of quilters/activists in Athens, GA, in honor of those killed on April 8, 2003 in Bombing of Al-Karrada, Baghdad:

For Mulkiyya Jabir, 87. By Jeanne.

For Adhra Jabir, 32. By Elizabeth.

For Zaid Ratha Jabir. By Sarina.

For Zahida Jabir, 34. By Jeanne.

For Mina Jabir, 2. By Tanna.

For Rana Jabir, 25. By Beth.

The following quilt squares were sent to us:


For Alaa and Dekrayet Hussein and Leila, Estebraket, and Nada Zeibi, killed in Latefiyeh in 2003. By Lynda from Tuscon, AZ.

For the Tom Fox of Christian Peacemaker Teams, who was abducted in Baghdad in November of 2005 and died in March of 2006. By Gail in Maryland.

For James Kachadoorian, of Baghdad, killed by crossfire during four-hour gunfight with Baath Party members as he and his family fled bombing in their neighborhood April 8, 2003. By Bill.

For Army Sgt. 1st Class Gladimir Philippe, 37, of Linden, NJ. Killed South of Balad, Iraq, on June 25, 2003. By Chris.

For 5 Syrian civilians killed who were killed when US missile hit their bus as it fled Iraq on March 24, 2003. By Nancy.

For the translator for the 2
international relief workers who were killed in Hilla, central Iraq, possibly
targeted for working on women's projects. By Hilda.

For 3 month old Baby Ali Mohammed Jabbar, who died in June of 2004 of septicemia, a bacterial blood infection easily treated if more advanced medical care had been available. By Nancy in CA.

For Margaret Hassan, CARE Staffmember and Irish-Iraqi citizen, 59. By Nancy in CA.

The following quilt squares were made in a third grade art class at Cypress Hills Community School (P.S. 89), Brooklyn, NY.

For Christopher Morningstar, 27, San Antonio, TX. By Maquisha, Brooklyn, NY.

For Lance Cornett, age 33, London KY. "I feel happy because it's really nice to make a quilt for somebody who died in the war. I like the name Lance, cause it's really nice to go on the quilt." Elizabeth, 3rd grade, Brooklyn, NY.

For Jesse Zamora, 22,Company B, 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, Las Cruces, N.M. By Nathaly, 3rd grade, Brooklyn, NY.

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