Daily U.S. Casualties 6/26/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 6/26/2004

As of Friday, 848 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 627 died as a result of hostile action and 221 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 710 U.S. soldiers have died -- 518 as a result of hostile action and 192 of nonhostile causes, according to the military as of Friday.

There were no new deaths reported by the military.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Staff Sgt. Charles A. Kiser, 37, Cleveland, Wis.; killed Thursday in an

explosion in Mosul, Iraq; assigned to the Army Reserves 330th Military Police Detachment, Sheboygan, Wis.

[luaneryder]

1. You could ask most people

on the streets of America the casualty count and they wouldn't have a clue because they aren't seeing it on their TV. Ask the same people about Iraqi civilian casualties and they would probaly say who cares. What a damn sad state of affairs this country is in.