Centcom: TOTAL US wounded Iraq 1,450 . TOTAL DEATHS 339

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

TOTAL US wounded in Iraq since March 20th: 1,450


Reported by Centcom* As of 8 AM EDT, 3 Sept 2003

US troops wounded in action: 1,144
US troops wounded in non-hostile incidents 306
TOTAL US wounded in Iraq since March 20th: 1,450

*we asked the question, they replied

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx


Notes:
Latest Fatality Date: 9/2/2003

Total deaths since July 2nd: 83
(Pres. Bush announces, "Bring Them On")

Total deaths since July 22nd: 55
(the deaths of Odai & Qusai Hussein)

Fatalities after the end of combat operations exceed totals during war. Total since May 1st: 148
March 20th through May 1st: 139


TOTAL COALITION

US 287 UK 50 Other 2

TOTAL DEATHS 339



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......why is the term "casualties" used ?

Is not "casualties" dead AND wounded ?

[bigtree]

1. The Young Dead Soldiers

The young dead soldiers do not speak.
Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses.
(Who has not heard them?)....They say,
We were young. We have died. Remember us.
They say,
We have done what we could
But until it is finished it is not done.
They say,
We have given our lives
But until it is finished no one can know what our lives gave.
They say,
Our deaths are not ours,
They are yours,
They will mean what you make them.
They say,
Whether our lives, and our deaths were for peace and a new hope
Or for nothing
We cannot say.
It is you who must say this.
They say,
We leave you our deaths,
Give them their meaning.

The poet, Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois, on May 7, 1892 and died in died in April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts.