Daily U.S. Casualties 8/29/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/29/2004

As of Friday, 968 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 724 died as a result of hostile action and 244 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, 830 U.S. soldiers have died -- 615 as a result of hostile action and 215 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday. The department did not provide an update Saturday.

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


No deaths reported.


The latest identifications reported by the military:

Marine Cpl. Barton R. Humlhanz, 23, Hellertown, Pa., died Thursday from hostile injuries in Iraq's Babil province; assigned to Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group 24, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit; Camp Lejeune, N.C.


Army Spc. Marco D. Ross, 20, Memphis, Tenn.; died Wednesday in Baghdad, Iraq, when mortars hit his camp; assigned to the Army's 115th Forward Support Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division; Fort Hood, Texas.

[LiberalVoice]

1. Is anyone really supposed to believe that 244 died of nonhostile causes?

I mean really? 244 soldiers? Thats an insanely high number of people dieing in a war for not having anything to do with it.