and this was brought up in the "new york times" by lynette alvarez in 2006 when she wrote a big editorial piece about why the american public doesn't care that women are dying in war. because everyone had expected that there would be a big backlash against this. and it wasn't. so i got interested in this topic, and i set out to write an op-ed piece, and i was working on it when it went to pick my daughter up from photography saucers house which had gone for played it with his daughter. they had been best friends since kindergarten. saw she and i had always tossed around idea of collaborating on something. and i suggested why don't we do a magazine article about women serving in iraq and afghanistan. and he thought there was an interesting idea. and i mentioned it to a curator friend, actually it was then generated at the visual arts center in richmond. she said instead of an article, why not work on an exhibit? i was really intrigued by the idea of an exhibit that would bring together world history narratives and full colored photographs of women who have served in wartime. and i love the