Mon. Sep. 25, 2006 -
US MILITARY deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan now surpass those of the most devastating terror attack in American history.
The latest milestone came last Friday without commemoration or the name of the 2,974th person to die in the fighting.
The Sept 11 attacks killed 2,973.
An Associated Press count of the US death toll in Iraq had risen to 2,696. Combined with 278 American deaths in and around Afghanistan, the Sept 11 toll was reached, then topped, the same day. Altogether, 3,030 have died abroad since Sept 11.
The Pentagon reported last Friday the latest death in Iraq, a soldier who was killed a day earlier after his vehicle was bombed.
The body count from World War II was far higher for Allied troops than for Axis ones. Americans lost more men in Pacific battles than the 2,390 who died at Pearl Harbour. The US lost 405,399 people during World War II.
Among the Americans killed in Iraq, 34 per cent were from communities with the lowest levels of family income. Half came from middle-income communities and only 17 per cent from the highest income level.
Monday, September 25, 2006
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