# Matt Kenyon: How I snuck a memorial for Iraqi civilians into the US government

It’s estimated that 150,000 to 1 million Iraqi civilians died as a result of the US-led invasion in 2003. Artist Matt Kenyon wanted to create a monument for them. But rather than build a large stone pillar, he made his monument small in size and easily replicable. He’s spent five years sneaking it into the halls of power — including directly into the hands of a US Attorney General who held office during the war, in an exchange caught on tape.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- Runtime: 6 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: War, Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/MattKenyon_2015U)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/MattKenyon_2015U?play=1)