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:
785 American soldiers, 111 “Coalition” soldiers, and
approximately 9,000 Iraqi soldiers and 10,750 Iraqi civilians have been killed
in Iraq since the beginning of the occupation to May 17.
American soldiers
killed from May 11-17:
Sergeant Brud J. Cronkrite; 22; Spring Valley, California | Command Sergeant
Major Edward C. Barnhill; 50; Shreveport, Louisiana | Senior Airman Pedro I.
Espillat, Jr.; 20; Columbia, Tennessee | Staff Sergeant Rene Ledesma; 34;
Abilene, Texas | Private First Class Michael A. Mora; 19; Arroyo Grande,
California | Lance Corporal Jeremiah E. Savage; 21; Livingston, Tennessee |
Specialist Jeffrey R. Shaver; 26; Maple Valley, Washington | Specialist Philip
I. Spakosky; 25; Browns Mill, New Jersey | Private First Class Brandon Sturdy;
19; Urbandale, Iowa | Specialist Kyle A. Brinlee; 21; Pryor, Oklahoma | Private
First Class Andrew L. Tuazon; 21; Chesapeake, Virginia | Sergeant Rodney A.
Murray; 28; Ayden, North Carolina | Specialist James J. Holmes; 28; East Grand
Forks, Minnesota | Specialist Chase R. Whitham; 21; Oregon | Specialist Isela
Rubalcava; 25; El Paso, Texas | Specialist Philip D. Brown; 21; El Paso, Texas
Sources: US Department
of Defense, www.lunaville.org, Project on Defense Alternatives, The New York
Times, www.iraqbodycount.net
— Jennifer Weiss
This article appears in May 19-25, 2004.
