Daily U.S. Casualties 8/26/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 8/26/2004

As of Wednesday, 964 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 722 died as a result of hostile action and 242 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 64 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, 10; 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, 826 U.S. soldiers have died -- 613 as a result of hostile action and 213 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Wednesday.

The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:


A soldier was killed Wednesday in a vehicle accident near Tikrit.


The latest identifications reported by the military:

Army Staff Sgt. Robert C. Thornton Jr., 35, Rainbow City, Ala.; died Monday in a grenade attack in Baghdad; assigned to the 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.


Marine Sgt. Richard Lord, 24, Fanning Springs, Fla., died Aug. 18 from injuries received in combat in Anbar province, Iraq; assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.


Marine Gunnery Sgt. Edward Reeder, 32, Camp Verde, Ariz., died Saturday in a vehicle accident in Anbar province, Iraq; assigned to Headquarters and Service Battalion, 1st Force Service Support Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

[Ghetto_Boy]

1. Bush will go underground at 1000...

[yellerpup]

2. The killing goes on and on. I fear that the kids in Iraq

are the most likely beneficiaries of terror attacks during the Republican Convention in NYC.