To honor the war dead and fill an information gap in US mass
media, City Newspaper will run weekly
lists of American/”Coalition” soldiers and Iraqi citizens killed during the
ongoing occupation of Iraq.
The totals:
587 Americans, 101 “Coalition” soldiers, and approximately
10,000 Iraqi soldiers and 10,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since
the beginning of the occupation to March 26.
American soldiers
killed from March 20-26:
Lance Corporal Jeffrey C. Burgess; 20; Plymouth,
Massachusetts | Specialist Adam D. Froehlich; 21; Pine Hill, New Jersey | Lance
Corporal James A. Casper; 20; Coolidge, Texas | Lance Corporal Andrew S. Dang;
20; Foster City, California | Private First Class Christopher E. Hudson; 21;
Carmel, Indiana | Private Dustin L. Kreider; 19; Riverton, Kansas | First
Lieutenant Michael W. Vega; 41; Lathrop, California | Major Mark D. Taylor; 41;
Stockton, California | Specialist Matthew J. Sandri; 24; Shamokin, Pennsylvania
| Corporal David M. Vicente; 25; Methuen, Massachusetts | Private First Class
Jason C. Ludlam; 22; Arlington, Texas | Specialist Clint Richard Matthews; 31;
Bedford, Pennsylvania | Specialist Doron Chan; 20; Highland, New York |
Corporal Andrew D. Brownfield; 24; Summit, Ohio | Sergeant Michael J. Esposito,
Jr.; 22; Brentwood, New York | Private First Class Ernest Harold Sutphin; 21;
Parkersburg, West Virginia | Private First Class Ricky A. Morris, Jr.; 20;
Lubbock, Texas | Sergeant Ivory L. Phipps; 44; Chicago, Illinois | Private
First Class Brandon C. Smith; 20; Washington, Arkansas
In Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan, Philippines, the
Persian Gulf, and other areas), US military deaths exceed 110, not counting
“Coalition” military deaths. Estimated Afghan deaths so far: 3,700 or
more civilians; thousands of military deaths.
Sources: US Department
of Defense, www.lunaville.org, The New York Times, www.iraqbodycount.net
— Jennifer Weiss
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2004.
