To honor the war dead and fill an information gap in US mass
media, City Newspaper will run weekly
lists of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians killed during the occupation of
Iraq.
The totals:
940 American soldiers, 127 Coalition soldiers, and
approximately 11,605 to 13,579 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from
the beginning of the war and occupation to Aug 15. More than 5,860 American
soldiers have been wounded in action. Nearly one in six soldiers returning from
the war shows signs of post-traumatic stress disorder or other emotional
difficulties.
American soldiers
killed from Aug 11-15:
Lance Corporal Jonathan W. Collins, 19; Crystal Lake,
Illinois | Captain Andrew Houghton, 25; Houston, Texas | Captain Michael Yury Tarlavsky,
30; Passaic, New Jersey | First Lieutenant Neil Anthony Santoriello, 24;
Verona, Pennsylvania | Lance Corporal Kane M. Funke, 20; Vancouver, Washington
| Lance Corporal Nicholas B. Morrison, 23; Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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
This article appears in Aug 18-24, 2004.
