The Memorial Solar Daytime Map

For Memorial Day Axios created an interactive map of U.S. armed services deaths since 9/11. The map shows how many soldiers bring given their lives for their province since 9/11 inwards every county inwards the contiguous United States. The Memorial Day Map uses the abode towns for each of the fallen soldiers.

The circle markers are scaled to exhibit the full expose of deaths inwards each county. It is of import to banknote that these are full numbers. For illustration Los Angeles County is the biggest mark on the map. This is because the 167 deaths of soldiers is the largest expose of whatsoever county. That doesn't hateful that LA County has suffered the highest expose of deaths per population. The colors of the markers correspond the normalized expose of deaths per 100,000 of the population. Bexar County inwards Texas has the highest charge per unit of measurement of armed services deaths of all U.S. counties (with to a greater extent than than 1 one thou m people).

Since 9/11 6,940 U.S. armed services service members bring died inwards service.