more than 4000

I was watching yesterday on CNN how a person somewhere in Vermont set up a small white flag for every soldier killed in Iraq. The field is on a major road, and he did it so as people drive by they have a visual reminder. I am not sure a reminder of what. Of how many lives was has cost? of how many US soldiers killed? Of the price of war as the option to solve conflicts? I would like to see a field with one white flag for every life it has cost. Whether US soldier, or soldier from another country. Whether civilian, contractor, Iraqi, just counting lives. May be it could help to spend a while in a space shuttle, and see the earth from above. From there it's more clear, that it's just lives of planet habitants. There is this great game I've read about in Paul Hawken's book "Blessed Unrest", where he invites a group of executives to think and plan life for one year in a space shuttle, the size of their choice. They have no restrictions in what they can do or take on board. It becomes interesting to think of the earth as a large size shuttle, and we are all travelling on it together.