The Clark County Press, Neillsville, Clark Co, WI

June 8, 2011, Page 16

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Learning Center Photos feature Iraq War

The ?Always Lost: A Meditation on War? June art exhibit is featured at The Highground?s Learning Center throughout the month.  The exhibit includes Iraq War combat photos.  The Learning Center is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Contributed Photo)

The Highground Learning Center?s June photo exhibit is titled, ?Always Lost: A Meditation on War? and features Iraq War Photos.

The Learning Center is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  Always Lost is a perfect fit for The Highground?s Learning Center ? it reinforces its vision and mission of healing and education.

The exhibit features the 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning Iraq War combat photos of David Leeson and Cheryl Meyer, courtesy of ?The Dallas Morning News.? 

The exhibit includes the literary work of Western Nevada College English Professor Marilee Swirczek?s creative writing classes, veterans and their families, the Lone Mountain Writers Group and other northern Nevada writers. 

Three Western Nevada College student-veterans are profiled through photographs and interviews to represent the thousands of men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

When everyone wakes up in their homes after a good night?s sleep in a safe and free land, gather loved ones and pay tribute to the soldiers making that possible.  These soldiers did not sleep well but huddled inside a tank, or behind a wall in a hostile land. Thousands never came home again to see their loved ones.