Exhibit honors Indiana lives lost in Iraq war WEST LAFAYETTE, IN (wbaa) - An exhibit on the Purdue Memorial Mall is illustrating the cost of the Iraq War to Indiana.

One-hundred-forty-six pairs of combat boots are laid out in the grass to represent the servicemen and women from Indiana who have lost their lives in the war.

Purdue's St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center is one of the sponsors of the exhibit.

Father Jim Barnett says the display makes the war more personal, by focusing on the human cost as opposed to the financial cost.

The entire death toll was represented in a national exhibit on Memorial Day Weekend last year.

It has since been divided into individual state displays which now include more than four-thousand pairs of combat boots representing U-S military casualties in Iraq.

The Eyes Wide Open exhibit is on the Purdue Memorial Mall until 6pm Thursday, and again from 9am-6pm Friday.
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