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:
907 American soldiers and 121 Coalition soldiers have been
killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to July 26. More
than 5,804 American soldiers have been wounded in action, while an estimated
11,000 have become ill or been injured in “non-combat” incidents.
Nearly one in six soldiers returning from the war shows signs of post-traumatic
stress disorder of other emotional difficulties.
American soldiers
killed from July 20-26:
Private First Class Torey J. Dantzler; 22; Columbia,
Louisiana | Private First Class Nicholas H. Blodgett; 21; Wyoming, Michigan |
Specialist Danny B. Daniels II; 23; Varney, West Virginia | Lance Corporal Mark
E. Engel; 21; Grand Junction, Colorado | Staff Sergeant Michael J. Clark; 29;
Leesburg Lake, Florida | Corporal Todd J. Godwin; 21; Muskingum County, Ohio |
Sergeant Dale T. Lloyd; 22; Watsontown, Pennsylvania | Private First Class
Charles C. Persing; 20; Albany, Louisiana | Specialist Craig S. Frank; 24;
Lincoln Park, Michigan | Sergeant First Class David A. Hartman; 41; Akron,
Michigan | Lance Corporal Bryan P. Kelly; 21; Klamath, Oregon
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 28 – Aug 3, 2004.
