A portrait exhibition of more than 1,300 servicemembers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has been extended until March 31, 2006, at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington, Va. Since opening in March 2005, “Faces of the Fallen: America’s Artists Honor America’s Heroes” has drawn close to a quarter million visitors and has been named one of the best exhibitions of 2005 in the Washington D.C. area. (Go here for more information about the exhibit, but when we checked today, the closing date still showed December 2005, which was also an extension.)
Amid a high-profile recruiting crisis, Air Force leaders and experts have increasingly noted the challenging long-term trends the service will face in enticing young Americans to sign up—decreasing eligibility to serve, less propensity to do so, and less familiarity with the military. But while those same leaders say there’s no “silver…