Upcoming Exhibits:

Monday, 9-5-11

Cleveland Peace Show at Willard Park

(near the Free Stamp by Burke Lakefront Airport)

See bottom of page on how to bring Eyes Wide Open to your community !

View the Link TV DocumentaryTrailor on Eyes Wide Open

(Check viewing schedule for program airing dates)

Click Here For The EWO Ohio Archives

Number of Ohioans Killed in Iraq:

(188 DOD Confirmation)**

*This number includes soldiers that have died in Iraq that may have been living somewhere else when deployed, but were originally from Ohio.

**This number does not include the suicide of soldiers after returning home from Iraq.

Number of Ohioans Captured in Iraq:

Approximate Number of Ohioans Injured in Iraq:

1360

Total Number of U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq:

4474

Total Number of U.S. Troops Wounded in Iraq:

32,159

Total Number of U.S. Deaths Self-Inflicted:

185

Total Iraqi Police/Military:

12, 112

(Numbers recorded are from icasualties.org)

Total Iraqi Civilians Killed: 45,000 to as many as over 655,000 (according to The Lancet and a study by the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in cooperation with the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See Washington Post article from October 11, 2006)

(Date Updated: 8/11/11)

Number of Ohioans Killed in Afghanistan:

(66 DOD Confirmation)**

*This number includes soldiers that have died in Afghanistan that may have been living somewhere else when deployed, but were originally from Ohio.

**This number does not include the suicide of soldiers after returning home from Afghanistan.

Total Number of U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan:

1731

(Date Updated: 8/11/11)

Bring Eyes Wide Open Ohio to your Community...

UPDATED EXHIBIT!

Eyes Wide Open Ohio is a multi-media exhibit that presents a portion of the true impact of war on Ohioans. If you would like to host this exhibit in your community contact:

Leah Davis, e-mail: LDavis@afsc.org / phone at 330-928-2301

ALL NEW BROCHURES!!

Click image above to view and download front of brochure (pdf)

Click image above to view and download inside of brochure (pdf)

NEWS!!

300,000 vets have mental problems, 320,000 had brain injuries

Study: 300,000 US troops from Iraq, Afghanistan have mental problems, 320,000 brain injuries

PAULINE JELINEK
AP News

Apr 17, 2008 09:47 EST

Read Full Story Here

20,000 vets' brain injuries not listed in Pentagon tally

By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY

November 22, 2007

Read Full Story Here

These modern day "Betsy Rosses" helped add poppies to the exhibit's memorial to wounded Ohio troops at the Akron office. If you'd like to volunteer to help with the exhibit, please contact us at the AFSC office nearest you!

In memory of Dorothy Betz who passed away 9-4-2009

Watch the Wage Peace Movie
Download it from the National AFSC Website.

Ten Reasons Why We Need To Leave Iraq

Read what people wrote in the comment book after experiencing the exhibit!

Watch the newly released music video by blues musician Robert Cray, "Twenty", from his Grammy-Nominated album of the same name that features the National Eyes Wide Open Exhibit.