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CATHEYS VALLEY, CA (April 14, 2008) -- Project Compassion (www.heropaintings.com) recently shipped its 1,000th hero painting to a fallen American service member's next of kin the week of March 19, 2008—coincidentally, the fifth anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the same week the Pentagon announced the 4,000th American casualty in the conflict. The organization's five artists have shipped between 50 and 70 new portraits in the month since. "As sobering as these milestones are, for Project Compassion our 1,000th hero portrait represents 1,000 thank yous on behalf of all Americans," said Marie Woolf, CEO and executive director of Project Compassion. "A thousand times so far, we at Project Compassion have proven that even as war is the most destructive force we presently know, love is the most quietly creative force we know—and for us, that means healing through art." More...



         
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