Every year tens of thousands of people congregate at the gates of Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. They raise their voices together against a government subsidized school called the School of the Americas, or the SOA. In 2001, the SOA was renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHINSEC. WHINSEC teaches their students counterinsurgency, sniper training, warfare, and interrogation tactics. Many of these graduates are notorious in their native Latin American countries in waging war against their own people using the very same tactics taught to them at WHINSEC. Each cross represents a life ended at the hands of a WHINSEC graduate.