Project Compassion is a non-profit that is creating portraits of every American serviceman or servicewaman killed while in active service since September 11th, 2001. It sounds like Project Compassion might be on the level.

The American Legion Auxiliary, the largest patriotic women’s service organization in the world with over 900,000 members, noted in awarding Project Compassion its 2007 Public Service Award: “Project Compassion struck a chord with us: healing through art… [and] the understanding and knowledge that the arts in any form, have a curative value. Art can heal the soul and the mind. Project Compassion is helping our military families cope with a tragic loss [and] …the wounds of their service to our nation.” Every one of the thousands of calls, letters, cards, and emails which have poured into Project Compassion from around the world confirm the need for Project Compassion, a need we ourselves never imagined was so profound until we simply began sending portraits to soldiers’ families, one at a time. Project Compassion is our privilege, the privilege of knowing we have actually made a difference in the lives of military families for generations to come.

Of course, the Department of Defense and US Armed Forces may be official partners in the non-profit business, they aren’t the ones funding this (and paying the artists). Maybe Blackwater should chip in a few hundred thousand (pocket change to them). The tragedy that the families of fallen soldiers must endure is unthinkable. Still, I wonder that since neither Afghanistan or Iraq had any involvement with the bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon that Project Compassion’s stipulations are a bit too narrow. Oh well, perhaps if the government were actually funding this, all the fallen soldiers might get a portrait.

Until then, I’ll just follow the government’s free advice; duct tape and plastic sheets, duck and cover.

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