American Artist Paints 2000 portraits of the fallen

Ok I nicked this off ARRSE.com as I thought it was really good.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8471873.stm

‘Distinctive portraits of British, US and Canadian service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan – created by artist Michael Reagan – have gone on display at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington DC.

A Vietnam War veteran himself, he has produced more than 2,000 drawings for the soldiers’ families free of charge. He told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme he wants to document all of the Allied troops killed in action.’