Daily U.S. Casualties 08/31/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 08/31/2004
As of Monday, 974 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 729 died as a result of hostile action and 245 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, 836 U.S. soldiers have died -- 620 as a result of hostile action and 216 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Monday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

One U.S. soldier was killed Sunday when his convoy was hit by an explosive near Mosul.

The latest identifications reported by the military or family members:
Marine Pfc. Nick Skinner, 20, Davenport, Iowa; killed Thursday by gunfire in Najaf, Iraq; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Unit, Platoon 1023, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Army Pfc. Luis A. Perez, 19, Theresa, N.Y.; killed Friday in Fallujah, Iraq, by an explosive near his convoy; assigned to the Army Reserves 223rd Transportation Company, Norristown, Pa.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. We willl reach 1000 before the election

so cried the chimp, BRING IT ON.

[Krasnaya Lastochka]

2. and the really sad thing is

they died for a lie. And for god's sake, that last guy on the list was only 19!!!!