Closing Ceremonies
Thursday, June 7, 2007
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“To say that this exhibition is moving would be an understatement. Words always fall short when we try to describe our respect, sympathy and profound gratitude to those who have sacrificed everything in the service to our nation. . . The artists have succeeded where our words have failed.”
- General Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (The Citizen, July 6, 2005)
March 2005-June 2007
Exhibit is closed. No additional portraits will be produced. Please see Online Portrait Gallery to view individual portraits from the exhibit.
Faces of the Fallen, America’s Artists Honor America’s Heroes, was an exhibition of 1,319 original portraits of service men and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in the period October 10, 2001 through November 11, 2004. The exhibition at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial closed in June 2007. All of the images from the exhibiton may be viewed in the online Portrait Gallery on this website.
Official closing ceremonies for Faces of the Fallen, America’s Artists Honor America’s Heroes were held at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial, at the gateway to Arlington National Cemetery, on Thursday, June 7, 2007. General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave the keynote address. The exhibition closed to the public on Sunday, June 10. Portraits have been taken down, packed and shipped home to service members’ next-of-kin.
Special thanks to all those individuals, organizations and agencies who most generously supported the final phase of Faces of the Fallen, including:
Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary
Department of Veterans Affairs, Media Services Division
National Park Service, Museum Resource Center
The U.S. Military Services
L’Academie de Cuisine
Lockheed Martin Foundation
Prudential
Susan Davis International
The UPS Store – The Village at Shirlington
UPS
The Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation