“The Fallen Project [made] a visual representation of 9000 people drawn in the sand which equates the number of Civilians, Germans Forces and Allies that died during the D-day landings, 6^th June during WWII as an example of what happens in the absence of peace.”

…When we lifted the stencil it revealed a single prone figure drawn into the sand with all of us stood around it. All was quiet and I [realized] then that we had just made together the first of the Fallen 9000.  A representation of a person that once lived, they had parents, family friends.  This person had died prematurely due to a conflict and we were marking his passing.

After that hundreds of people took stencils and rakes in hand and embarked on drawing the 9000.
The Fallen 9000 by Sand In Your Eye

Wow.