But up close, the details are much more personal, each commemorating individual lives lost in combat.
Since October church members have hung thousands of ribbons in memory of civilian as well as military troops - American and foreign - killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and east Africa. Purple ribbons, hung every few yards, each represents prayers for these people. Parishioners call it "Ribbons of Remembrance."
They said it's not a political statement,...
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