reflective mailbox numbers to acknowledge soldier deaths

[eek]

I bought a bunch of those refelctive numbers - the kind you put on mailboxes - at Home Despot yesterday.

They will be taped on the inside of my rear car window showing the current death toll next to some sort of 'support our troops" sticker, ribbon, whatever.

I'll post with whether I get a response.

[cdb]

1. What is the number as of today?? n/t

[elehhhhna]

3. 1862. More data here:

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[ClassWarrior]

2. Great idea! There's a web site that suggests getting an electronic sign...

...installed in the storefront of a local business to show the various costs of the war: lives, money, etc. For details, go to http://costofwar.com/.

Plus, I'm beginning a letter writing campaign asking area businesses to lower their flags to half-staff. We need to make the cost of this war VISIBLE.

NGU.

[doubleplusgood]

4. have been thinking about doing that myself

need to go to Lowe's to get the reflective numbers.

[Mnemosyne]

5. The reflective numbers idea is great eek! I've

just been printing out:

1863 DEAD
FOR LIES
and taping it in my car window. I also have a sign on my lamppost that I change every couple days.

Wish I could afford an electronic sign, I'm on a highway.

The sign in my car is getting many comments. * is sooo hated!

[ClassWarrior]

6. Hey eek! (Thread nominated...)

I didn't notice this was your thread at first.

:hi:

I should have clued into the pic of Huey.

I hope you and yours are well.

Peace + NGU.

[eek]

7. Hey! Thanks for the nomination. Thanks CW!

So what I wound up doing was taking a strip of clear packing-type tape and laid out the numbers so their backs were stuck about 1/4" up the bottom of the tape. Like a clothesline.

Then stuck that line of numbers to the inside of th back window.

That way, they are pretty easy to change. Like today. When I heard that another 4 of our guys had been killed.

(Damn their nasty false pretensing stubborn,grafting greedy embezzling from the war chest so our soldiers don't even have proper flak jackets none of their own relatives serving reaping big bags of money because of oil prices and defense contracts and tax relief eyes.)

[Lars39]

8. I've been using something called glass chalk.

It's kinda like white shoe polish. I update my vehicle's back window every day.

RIP
1862
Troops

[eek]

9. where'd you get it?

it reminds me of when we'd write stuff about whatever highschool team we liked or didn't.
But in a new, sh*tty way.

But anyway, where d'ja get the chalk stuff?

[Lars39]

10. Automotive dept

of that place that shan't be named.