Monday, May 30, 2011

Commemorate Memorial Day with Google Earth

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May 30, 2011 8:13 AM
by Google Earth Blog

Commemorate Memorial Day with Google Earth

On this Memorial Day, we offer you a few tools to help honor those who gave it all.

As we've done the last few years, we encourage you to check out Sean Askay's Map the Fallen project. Using his KML file, you can learn about many of the people that have lost their lives in recent US military duty.

Map of the Fallen in Google Earth

Another neat item to check out today is the US Medal of Honor collection that we first showed you in 2008. It was created by user 'Up_The_Spurs' from the Google Earth Community. You can download the KMZ and view the birthplaces, rank, organization, location of deed and citation for each winner.

medal-of-honor.jpg

If you know of any other great Memorial Day resources for Google Earth, please leave a comment and let us know.

Sightseeing


Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498

"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats

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