Anti-war activists congregate in front of City Hall after marching through downtown Milwaukee on Friday,  the seventh anniversary of the Iraq war.RALEIGH, N.C. – It was a day like any other day – except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten.

“Honestly, with everything that’s going on in my personal life, it slipped my mind,” said Chris Skidmore, 39, as he sipped a drink on the artificial lawn at Raleigh’s North Hills Mall. “I’ve been out of work since August of last year.”

It’s not that the average American isn’t aware that we still have tens of thousands of troops in Iraq, or that nearly 4,400 U.S. military personnel have died there since the war began. Scattered demonstrations were scheduled around the country to call for the troops’ swift return.

Did you realize it was the 7th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq?

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