Google Earth surprise

I was just toying around with Google Earth when I turned on the community layer, and all these names started popping up everywhere. Thinking that vanity had run completely amuck, I clicked on one to see what sort of narcissist would pollute my map like that.

Well, turns out that it wasn't narcissists at all, but dead soldiers. Someone has taken the time to geocode every coalition war death in Afghanistan and Iraq by their hometowns, and made this available as a GE Placemark file. What's more is that this information is also viewable by turning on the military layer inside GE community, thus attaching these names and locations to any viewing of US military base locations.

It is horrifying.