The Bakersfield College Democrats, along with The Democratic Women of Kern, The Bakersfield Progressive Democrats, PEACE Bakersfield, Bakersfield College MECHA and the Bakersfield College Student Government Association helped put on the memorial Wednesday in the free speech area.
The event was titled A Day of Remembrance, A Night of Reckoning, which symbolizes the number of casualities in the war in Iraq. Nighttime events included a showing of the presidential debate and a documentary, Uncovered: The Truth about the Iraq war.