For the third time in two years the Madison chapter of Vets for Peace will install a mile long visual representation of the human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This year the memorial mile, comprised of more than 4 thousand plastic tombstones, will change venues . It will stretch along the edge of the Forest Hill Cemetery ..the resting place of hundreds of past wars. Gil Halsted reports…
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