Troops Killed in Iraq." The message's intentionally passive syntactical structure is the key to the entire memorial and the emotional response it is designed to engender. To achieve this effect, the memorial was designed to be simply a mock military cemetery topped by a large sign stating, "In Memory of 2867 U.S. The goal, as Heaton writes, is to continuously remind people of the number of fatalities and thereby stir up feelings of "guilt" and "grief." Knowing that an overtly anti-war installation would only be preaching to the converted, Heaton deliberately tried to assume a mantle of impartiality, to "honor the troops," but to do so in such a way that the viewer would feel that the soldiers' sacrifice was pointless and that the war was futile. The design and appearance of the faux memorial was carefully planned. Diablo Peace Center - was to bring about an end to the war in Iraq by making everyone who saw his installation feel bad about the human cost of the conflict. Heaton's stated intent - as he revealed in subsequent interviews and on websites he set up about the mock memorial at "The Crosses of Lafayette" and for the Mt. Thompson Road in Lafayette, California, just north of the Lafayette BART commuter train station. On November 13, 2006, an anti-war activist by the name of Jeff Heaton erected a mock military cemetery at the intersection of Deer Hill Road and N. THE LAFAYETTE MOCK WAR MEMORIAL The Lafayette Mock War Memorial
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