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A PERSONAL TRIBUTE: Soldier makes posters to remember fallen
Deb Reichmann | Wicked Local
Remembering the dead by carving their names on a cold, stone wall seemed too impersonal to U.S.
Army Cpl. Poto Leifi.
Leifi, a California commercial artist-turned soldier, thought the U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq should be remembered full of life — and in a way that celebrated their patriotism.
After years of trial and error, Leifi makes posters in a vintage style that recalls the “Rosie the Riveter” and “Uncle Sam Wants You!” recruiting posters of World War II.
He calls his project “Freedom’s on Me” — a patriotic twist on “Drinks are on me.”
One of his first posters commemorated Marine Cpl.
Mick Bekowsky, a year-old from Concord, California, killed by a car bomb Sept. 6, in Fallujah, Iraq.
Bekowsky, who liked to race cars, hunt and fish, is shown bare-chested, beaming toward the sky, arm around a woman in a vintage bathing suit.
The poster dubs him “Americ