Daily U.S. Casualties 3/30/2004

Daily U.S. Casualties 3/30/2004

As of Monday, 589 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq a year ago, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 398 died as a result of hostile action and 191 died of nonhostile causes, the department said.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Ukraine, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.

Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 451 U.S. soldiers have died -- 283 as a result of hostile action and 168 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.

Since the start of military operations, 2,992 U.S. service members have been injured as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department. Nonhostile injured numbered 441.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


A soldier was killed Monday

in a bomb explosion near a U.S. military convoy west of Baghdad.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Marine Pfc. Leroy Sandoval Jr., 21, Houston, Texas; died Friday from hostile fire in Anbar province, west of Baghdad; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.


Marine Master Sgt. Timothy Toney, 37, New York, N.Y.; died Saturday in a non-combat-related incident at Camp Wolverine, Kuwait; assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

especially so shortly after Vietnam?

Germany, Japan, Italy, and France are loathe to be involved in further armed conflict, even though WWII was two decades before the Vietnam War. Does the US have to suffer to the degree that these countries had before it realizes, "There's got to be a better way"?

and more dead from other countries. They arent even counting dead civilians , over 20,000 or dead soldiers due to suicide.
http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
not one should have died.
or been wounded.
no one. on either side, not one.
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com