2000th U.S. fatality seems to be from my area. They're all sad, but...

[Brotherjohn]

... here's this anyway:

"Lance Cpl. Jonathan "J.R." Spears, 21, was killed in action in Iraq at 8:16 a.m. Central Standard Time Sunday, seven weeks after returning to Iraq for his second tour of duty."

"News of Spears' death -- the first in Iraq from Escambia and Santa Rosa counties -- spread as the Department of Defense announced on Tuesday that the U.S. death toll in Iraq had reached 2,000."

"Although the Defense Department has not named Spears as that fatality, its official listing identifies a Sunday killing as the 2,000th death. It is the only death the Department of Defense has listed for Sunday."