More from Copley Square

A woman knelt for about ten minutes in front of the pile of 1,000 shoes representing the over 16,000 Iraqi victims of the war. Then she sat down, took off her shoes and placed them on the pile. As she walked away barefoot, an AFSC staff member asked her what she was doing.

She said that a friend of hers had just told her about a young Iraqi boy who had died recently because he could not obtain insulin. She placed the shoes to remember him.