To honor the war dead and fill an information gap in US mass
media, City Newspaper will run weekly
lists of American soldiers killed during the occupation of Iraq.
The totals:
855 American soldiers and 118 Coalition soldiers have been
killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to June 28. More
than 5,138 American soldiers have been wounded in action, while an estimated
11,000 have become ill or been injured in “non-combat” incidents. At
least 100 contractors have been killed or are currently missing. And an
estimated 50,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed or injured since the war
began.
American soldiers
killed from June 22-28:
Captain Christopher S. Cash; 36; Winterville, North Carolina | Specialist
Daniel A. Desens; 20; Jacksonville, North Carolina | Staff Sergeant Charles A.
Kiser; 37; Cleveland, Wisconsin | Lance Corporal Juan Lopez; 22; Whitfield,
Georgia | Specialist Patrick R. McCaffrey, Sr.; 34; Tracy, California | Second
Lieutenant Andre D. Tyson; 33; Riverside, California | Lance Corporal Pedro
Contreras; 27; Harris County, Texas | Lance Corporal Deshon E. Otey; 24;
Hardin, Kentucky | Corporal Tommy L. Parker, Jr.; 21; Cleburne, Arkansas |
Staff Sergeant Gregory V. Pennington; 36; Glade Spring, Virginia | Staff
Sergeant Marvin Best; 33; Prosser, Washington | Private First Class Jason N.
Lynch; 21; St. Croix, Virgin Islands | Specialist Thai Vue; 22; Willows,
California.
Sources: US Department
of Defense, www.icasualties.org, The Institute for
Policy Studies, Foreign Policy In Focus, www.antiwar.com, CNN, The New York
Times
— Jennifer Weiss
This article appears in Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2004.
