Daily U.S. Casualties 8/19/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 8/19/2004
As of Wednesday, 946 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 705 died as a result of hostile action and 241 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, seven; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, six; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 808 U.S. soldiers have died -- 596 as a result of hostile action and 212 of nonhostile causes.

Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 6,497 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

The latest deaths reported by military:

A U.S. soldier was shot and killed Wednesday while patrolling in eastern Baghdad.

A U.S. Marine assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed Wednesday in Anbar province. A second Marine died in a vehicle accident, the military reported Thursday.

The latest identification reported by the military:

Army Sgt. David M. Heath, 30, LaPorte, Ind.; killed Monday during an attack while on patrol in Sadr City, Iraq; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Fort Riley, Kan.

[benburch]

1. graph

[beyurslf]

2. Sad, just sad.

[Qanisqineq]

3. 953 killed

according to http://icasualties.org/oif/

and just yesterday it was 948 or 949... gee, I didn't hear about FOUR troops being killed in one day...

:cry:

Fuck Bush

[leeman67]

4. we lost SEVEN on sunday???

Unbelievable. I would not have known this had I not gone to this site linked here at DU that specifically is documenting "coalition" war casualties on a daily basis. It would seem the Media has stopped reporting on this? Gee, I wonder why that could be? :grr: