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:
861 American soldiers and 120 Coalition soldiers have been
killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to July 2. More
than 5,394 American soldiers have been wounded in action, while an estimated
11,000 have become ill or been injured in “non-combat” incidents. An
estimated 50,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed or injured since the war
began.
American soldiers
killed from June 29-July 2:
Specialist Robert L. DuSang; 24; Mandeville, Louisiana |
Lance Corporal Patrick R. Adle; 21; Baltimore, Maryland | Sergeant Alan D.
Sherman; 36; Brick, New Jersey | Corporal John H. Todd III; 24; Bridgeport,
Pennsylvania | Lance Corporal Manuel A. Ceniceros; 23; Santa Ana, California |
Specialist Jeremy M. Heines; 25; New Orleans, Louisiana | First Sergeant Ernest
E. Utt; 38; Hammond, Illinois
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 Jul 7-13, 2004.
