Daily U.S. Casualties 6/22/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 6/22/2004

As of Monday, 837 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 617 died as a result of hostile action and 220 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 699 U.S. soldiers have died -- 508 as a result of hostile action and 191 of nonhostile causes, according to the military as of Monday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


Four U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in an attack in Ramadi.


A U.S. soldier was killed Monday and seven others were wounded in a mortar attack in Baghdad.


A U.S. soldier died Friday from wounds received during an attack near Buhritz.


The latest identifications reported by the military:


Marine Staff Sgt. Marvin Best, 33, Prosser, Wash.; died Sunday of wounds suffered in an attack in Anbar province; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.


Marine Pfc. Sean Horn, 19, Orange, Calif.; died Saturday in a non-hostile incident at Camp Taqaddum; assigned to Combat Service Support Group 11, 1st Force Service Support Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

[Desertrose]

1. I am so sorry....

all these lives lost...for what? for who? certainly not to benefit the American people!
Really really sad.....


Peace.
DR