To honor the war dead and fill an information gap in US mass
media, City Newspaper will run weekly
lists of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed during the occupation of
Iraq.
The totals:
1,371 American soldiers, 161 Coalition soldiers, and
approximately 15,475 to 17,703 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from
the beginning of the war and occupation to January 25.
American soldiers
killed from Jan 19-25:
Corporal Paul C. Holter III, 21; Corpus Christi, Texas |
Specialist Alain L. Kamolvathin, 21; Blairstown, New Jersey | Private First
Class Francis C. Obaji, 21; Queens, New York | Sergeant Jayton D. Patterson,
26; Sedley, Virginia | Sergeant Nathaniel T. Swindell, 24; Bronx, New York |
Staff Sergeant Thomas E. Vitagliano, 33; New Haven, Connecticut | Private First
Class George R. Geer, 27; Cortez, Colorado | Private First Class Jesus Fonseca,
19; Marietta, Georgia | Captain Christopher J. Sullivan, 29; Princeton,
Massachusetts | Sergeant Kyle W. Childress, 29; Terre Haute, Indiana | First
Lieutenant Nainoa K. Hoe, 27; Hawaii | Captain Joe F. Lusk III, 25; Reedley,
California.
Sources: US Department
of Defense, www.icasualties.org, The New York Times,
www.iraqbodycount.net
This article appears in Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2005.
