Arlington West refers to two closely related projects, both of which are intended to draw public attention to, and to open a discourse on the subject of both military and civilian deaths during the invasion and occupation of Iraq of the early 21st century. There is also the similar, but differently named Lafayette Hillside Memorial in Lafayette, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
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