Lt Ken Ballard, my hero!
Eyes Wide Open- The Human Cost of War
San Francisco, CA March 2005

American Friends Service Committee
Sacramento, CA March 2005
Brooklyn, NY 10.16.05
Ali McCarthy, 24, of Oakland, CA., examines a letter attached to a pair of boots representing Lt. Kenneth M. Ballard, 26, of California, one of 1,975 United States military personnel killed in the Iraq war, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2005, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York. The traveling exhibit, which features hundreds of pairs of boots, is called 'Eyes Wide Open,' and is sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group that opposes the war. The massive display of boots is meant to show the human cost of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Mother's Day weekend 2006, Washington DC
Denver, CO October 2006