Opinion: Searching Through Our War Dead

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Some of us just attended a meeting about what newspapers can do with websites, at which we were made aware of a nifty page worth bookmarking -- the Washington Post‘s Faces of the Fallen: Iraq and Afghanistan Casualties (they actually mean ‘fatalities’), where you can read mini-bios on all 3,203 Americans killed, break down the fallen by state, see a city-by-city breakdown among the 329 from California or the seven from Long Beach; or just focus on Pfc. George Torres.

What does this newspaper do? There’s a useful collection of stories and special packages over at latimes.com/iraq, and a much cruder (though constantly updated) PDF file of fatalaties.