fallen

Interested in helping honor fallen U.S. troops who gave their lives in its recent wars, but not sure how to do it? A new Google Earth tool helps people find local (and not so local) families as well as media related to those troops who have paid the ... ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's a worthy reminder that these wars are far from over. The new feature is called Map the Fallen , a new Google Earth layer released Sunday by Google engineer Sean Askay. It holds data on the 5,700-plus service members who have died during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The highly interactive ... (view more)