2428 AND RISING - HIGHEST DAILY DEATH TOLL RATE IN TWO YEARS

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<http://icasualties.org/oif/>


2428 TOTAL FATALITIES

AVERAGING 3.33 DEATHS/DAY FOR MAY/2006

I WONDER HOW THE DELAY OF REPLACEMENT TROOPS FROM GERMANY WILL BE AFFECTED.

[Asgaya Dihi]

1. I wonder what it really is

Seems I read somewhere that those stats are a bit low, they count those who die in theater but not those who die of their wounds after the fact.

[catmandu57]

3. They are counted

Go to the link icasualties is the most reputable site collecting this information, they do count wounded who later died as a result of their wounds.
We've had this argument many times in the past three years, and it's always been proven false.
The real shame about all of this is sneaking the dead and wounded back into the country in the dark of night, when they should be greeted as heros.
This is another generation of our military who won't get a welcome home, when they deserve one.

[Asgaya Dihi]

5. Thanks

Hard to tell sometimes till you've sourced it or asked. Same type of thing goes on with the wtc issue, there's some real questions that need answered but also a lot of weak stuff going around that doesn't help the debate.

[stillcool]

2. the saddest, most inexplicable part of our new normal....

is all of these soldiers dying silently. When I read the articles...3 dead here, 4 dead there, no names, no faces, no hometowns,...thousands of our neighbors living and dying a Jimmy Stewart's Wonderful Life existence...and all because they each for reasons of their own, wanted to serve their country...our country. :cry: :cry:

[skipos]

4. The civilian death rate has been going up lately as well. nt

[democrank]

6. I check the site you linked every morning.

The numbers are almost mind-numbing. These are the deaths we know about. Imagine an anti-war newspaper ad with the faces of everyone killed in this mess? Every single man, woman and child? Imagine a supplement with those wounded, maimed or with emotional scars? It`s so horrible and oh, so sad. Thanks for keeping this in the headlines here at DU.

[catmandu57]

7. You know

I could go to my neighbors all around me and I would lay good money on it, that they don't have a clue as to how many dead and wounded there are, and for that matter don't really care as long as their world isn't affected.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. And just think, if the mained and injured did not have the combat medical

care of 2006, the number dead would be about 6 times that. I read the article in Rolling Stone about the Sgt. with a severe head injury and I believe it said that in Viet Nam there were 8 deaths to each survivor. But in Iraq, there is only one death to each survior.