Arlington Southwest

Arlington Southwest is an unoccupied cemetery located in Brewster County, Texas, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Alpine along U.S. Highway 90.

Each gravestone serves as a memorial for each individual soldier from Texas killed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq of the early 21st century.

The 2-acre (0.0081 km2) memorial was co-designed by Vietnam veteran Tom Curry and local architect Mark Battista.

[1] The memorial was established as a place for persons to remember both U.S. troops and the Iraqi civilians killed during the course of the Iraq War.

[1][2][3] The Veterans for Peace decided to use the representation of gravestones for the Texas fallen instead of crosses for all of the American fatalities for war in part due to the smaller pool of volunteer labor to create and maintain the memorial and in order to create a more personal space for those paying their respects.