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24 November 2004

1,272 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

See also DoD tally: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

DoD News Briefing
Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; and General Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 2:30 p.m. EST

            SEC. RUMSFELD: As our country prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving, we will take time to remember the truly outstanding men and women in uniform who continue to bring the hope of freedom to millions around the world.  We thank them.  We thank their families and their loved ones.  And we will particularly remember the families and loved ones of those who have given their lives in service to our country and those in hospitals, whether in Germany or here in the Washington area or elsewhere around our country, who are recovering from their wounds.  They will all be in our thoughts and prayers.

            GEN. MYERS:  Let me just add on to what the secretary just said.  I want to express the condolences of all the joint chiefs of staff to those who have been killed or wounded, to their families, their loved ones, their friends, over this entire global war on terrorism.  As the secretary said, they're doing what they do so we can live in this country, our friends and allies can live in peace and freedom.  So we owe them a real debt of gratitude, and we will remember them, especially as this holiday season progresses.

Associated Press photos.

May 2003               31 Died
Amanda Jenkins speaks to reporters after funeral services for her husband Army Sgt. Troy Jenkins at Wiefels and Sons Funeral Home in Yucca Valley, Calif., Monday, May 5, 2003. Jenkins was killed by a bomb he was taking from an Iraqi child. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)	Connie Gibson, mother of Army Sgt. Troy Jenkins, holds a picture of her son at a funeral service in Yucca Valley, Calif., Monday, May 5, 2003. Jenkins, killed by an explosive taken from an Iraqi girl in Baghdad was eulogized Monday, as a hero, a family man and ``country boy'' during a simple funeral in Yucca Valley. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Family members of Airman 1st class Raymond Losano arrive at Arlington National Cemetery, Wednesday, May 14, 2003 to attend his funeral. Losano, of Del Rio, Texas, died of wounds suffered in Afghanistan while accompanying Army paratroopers behind enemy lines to call in airstrikes. Left to right are Oralia Losano, mother, left, Roberto Losano,father, center, and Raymond's wife Sarah Losano, right,. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)	Cadets hold up their swords as pallbearers carry the casket bearing the body of Air Force Capt. Eric Bruce Das down the steps of the cadet chapel after a funeral service for the fallen pilot on Saturday, May 3, 2003, at Air Force Academy, Colo. Das was killed while flying a mission over northern Iraq on April 7. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Warrant Officer Suzanne Handshoe escorts Patricia T. Smith, right, mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Robert Smith, who was killed in a vehicle accident on May 10 in Kuwait, during funeral services for Smith in Anderson. Ind. (AP Photo/Herald Bulletin, Perry Reichanadter)	Michelle Griffin, wife of Air Force Staff Sgt. Patrick Lee Griffin Jr., who was killed in an ambush in Baghdad last week, hugs Air Force Chaplain Ismael Rodriguez as Captain Anthony Vandewall looks on before holding a press conference at Perkins Funeral Home in Dryden, N.Y., Tuesday, May 20, 2003. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)
DaVonna Rockhold, left, wife of slain U.S. Army Pfc. Marlin Rockhold, is consoled by Marlin's father Gary Rockhold at his casket during funeral services at the Pilgrim Baptist Church Saturday, May 17, 2003, in Hamilton, Ohio. Pfc. Rockhold was killed by a sniper in Baghdad, Iraq on May 8. (AP Photo/David Kohl)
June 2003               34 Died
Ryan Griffin, right, brother of Army Spc. Kyle A. Griffin who was killed in a tactical vehicle accident in Iraq on May 30, reaches for his brother's casket as Griffin's father, Ronald Griffin, looks on at the end of a military funeral for Spc. Griffin at George Washinton Memorial Park in Paramus, N.J., Monday, June 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)	Pallbearers from the U.S. Army carries the body of Spc. Joseph D. Suell to a waiting hearse following funeral services at First Missionary Baptist Church, Thursday, June 26, 2003, in Lufkin, Texas. Suell was killed June 16, 2003, in Todji, Iraq in a non-combat related incident. He is survived by his wife and their two daughters. (AP Photo/The Lufkin Daily News, Joel Andrews)
Elisha Pahnke, widow of Army Pvt. Shawn Pahnke, cries as she receives the casket flag during the funeral for her husband Thursday, June 26, 2003 in Manhattan, Ill. Shawn Pahnke was killed by a sniper while on patrol June 17 in Baghdad. (AP Photo, Oscar Salinas/The Daily Journal)	Tom and Linda Pahnke mourn the loss of their son Shawn, who was killed by a sniper June 17 in Baghdad, at his funeral in Manhattan, Ill., on Thursday June 26, 2003. At right is their other son Glen. (AP Photo/The Daily Journal, Oscar Salinas)
Esther Macklin, mother of Pvt. David Evans, Jr., 18, of Buffalo, N.Y., is overcome with emotion at his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington Friday, June 20, 2003. Evans, assigned to the 977th Military Police Company, was killed May 25 in Diwaniyah, Iraq, in an explosion at a facility which contained Iraqi ammunition. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)	Pam Halling, right, hugs her daughter Kristina Halling during the playing of "Taps" at the funeral of her son, Jesse Halling, a 19-year-old Army Military Policeman who was killed June 7 during a gun battle in Iraq, at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Tuesday, June 17, 2003. Jesse Halling was awarded a posthumous Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal during the service. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
A member of the Army honor guard walks through the head stones, Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery at the funeral for Army Lt. Col. Dominic Rocco Baragona, who died in a traffic accident in Iraq in May. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
July 2003             42 Died
Sergeants of the US Army salute US Army Sgt. Juan M. Serrano while his coffin is carried during Serrano's militrary funeral service at the National Cementery in Bayamo, Puerto Rico on July 31, 2003. US Army Sgt. Juan M. Serrano, 30, of Manati, Puerto Rico, died of a head injury on July 24, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq while he was changing a tire on an M998 vehicle when it fell on him. Serrano was assigned to Headquaters, Headquaters Group 1st. Batallion, 5th Armory , 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany, 5th Armory. (AP Photo/ Herminio J. Rodriguez)	Evelyn Serrano, 28, and widow of US Army Sgt Juan M. Serrano, cries while she receives the flag box during the military funeral service of her husband at the National Cementery in Bayamo, Puerto Rico on July 31, 2003. US Army Sgt. Juan M. Serrano, 30, of Manati, Puerto Rico, who died of a head injury on July 24, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq while he was changing a tire on an M998 vehicle when it fell on him. Serrano was assigned to Headquaters, Headquaters Group 1st. Batallion, 5th Armory , 1st Armored Division, Friedberg, Germany, 5th Armory. (AP Photo/Herminio J. Rodriguez)
Funeral director Gary Stanley, back left, escorts family members of Army Sgt. Justin Garvey, a Vermont native killed in Iraq, as his casket is carried out in Fair Haven, Vt., Monday, July 28, 2003. Garvey's wife Katie Garvey, second from back left; walks with his mother Angie Walsh; his brother Adam Walsh and his sister Kristin Garvey. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)	Funeral director Gary Stanley, left, stands with family members of Army Sgt. Justin Garvey, a Vermont native killed in Iraq, at the church as his casket is taken out in Fair Haven, Vt., Monday, July 28, 2003. Garvey's wife, Katie; his mother Angie Walsh, his brother Adam Walsh and his sister Kristin Garvey, are standing from left. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
The casket of slain North Dakota Army National Guard Spc. Jon Fettig is carried to a military plane for transport back to North Dakota on Wednesday, July 23, 2003, in Iraq. Fettig was killed July 21 in Iraq when attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at his Bismarck-based unit north of Baghdad. The family of Fettig is planning two days of public visitation before his funeral on Thursday, July 31, 2003. (AP Photo/North Dakota National Guard, Jackie Huber)	A picture of Sgt. Roger Dale Rowe sits in front of a floral arrangement that reads "Dad our hero" during his funeral service Friday, July 18, 2003, in Bon Aqua, Tenn. Rowe, a Tennessee Army National Guardsman, was killed by a sniper July 9, as he drove a tanker fuel truck in Iraq. He died five days before his 55th birthday, making him the oldest American casualty since the start of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Ada Torres, right, watches her son Ramon Rayon Reyes' military funeral service at the cementery in Caguas, Puerto Rico on Thursday July 24, 2003.Ramon Reyes Torres, an army reservist, was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack last week west of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Herminio J. Rodriguez)	Ramon Javier Reyes, 9, touches the U.S. flag that covers the coffin of his father Army Spc. Ramon Reyes as his mother Cynthia Reyes holds him during his father's funeral in Caguas, Puerto Rico, Thursday, July 24, 2003. Ramon Reyes Torres, an army reservist, was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack last week west of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Herminio J. Rodriguez)
Family members gather at the gravesite of Pfc. Edward James Herrgott, following funeral services Tuesday, July 15, 2003, in Shakopee, Minn. Herrgott was the first Minnesotan killed in the war in Iraq, shot by a sniper while guarding the National Museum in Baghdad on July 3. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)	The stepsisters of Army Spc. Jeffrey Mattison Wershow, who was killed July 6 in Baghdad, Samantha Schneider, left, and Joanna Schneider, and Wershow's brother Daniel Wershow, leave the Oak Hall School following Wershow's funeral service Sunday, July 13, 2003, in Gainesville, Fla. At right, Wershow's stepmother Pam Schneider and his father, Jon Wershow, are comforted by guests. Wershow was serving as an infantryman and radioman with the Florida National Guard Company C, 2nd Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment. (AP Photo/Florida Times-Union, Don Burk)
Anne Marie Mattison, right, clutches the flag that drapes her son's, Army Spc. Jeffrey Mattison's, casket as her husband, and Jeffery's stepfather, Billy Brame, left, comforts her during funeral services Sunday, July 13, 2003, in Gainesville, Fla. The 22-year-old National Guard Specialist and infantryman died July 6 from a gunshot wound to the head during a special mission in Iraq. (AP Photo/Florida Times-Union, Don Burk)	Benancia Lopez Sotelo, center, is comforted by her husband, Tomas, right, daughter Erica, left, son Jose , far left, and daughter Flor Lopez, standing at left, as Taps is played during a funeral service for her son Cpl. Tomas Sotelo Jr. Tuesday, July 8, 2003 in Houston. Sotelo Jr. was killed June 27 when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his vehicle in Bagdad. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
A U.S. Army Carlisle Barracks funeral honors team gun formation stands in the center of a road in front of the Trinity Epicscopal Church in Bethlehem, Pa., Tuesday July 8, 2003, as the flag-draped casket of U.S. Army First Sgt. Christopher Coffin is carried into the church for a memorial service. Coffin, 51, an Army reservist, was killed in Iraq last week under circumstances currently under investigation by the Army. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)	Unidentified friends and family mourn during the funeral of Army Sgt. 1st Class Gladimir Philippe, in Woodbridge, N.J., Saturday, July 5, 2003. Philippe was killed in Iraq last month. (AP Photo/Tim Larsen)
Bishop Charles McDonnell and Archbishop John J. Myers, of the Newark Archdiocese lead the Honor Guard from Ft. Sill, Okla. as they escort the casket of Army Sgt. 1st Class Gladimir Philippe out of St. Joseph the Carpenter Church in Roselle, N.J. following funeral services, Saturday, July 5, 2003. Philippe and Pfc. Kevin Ott of Orient, Ohio were reported missing June 25 after last being seen at their post 25 miles north of Baghdad. Their bodies were discovered three days later. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)	The casket bearing the remains of Lance Cpl. Gregory MacDonald, of Burlington, Mass., his carried into St. Margaret's Church for a funeral service, Saturday, July 5, 2003, in Burlington. MacDonald was killed in Iraq on June 25 when his light-armored vehicle overturned as he was haeding to assist another group of U.S. soldiers who were under attack. He was 29. MacDonald's brother, Mark MacDonald, follows in civilian clothes, upper right. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
August 2003           37 Died
Richard S. Eaton, wipes tears from his eyes as he stands with his wife Sharon Noble Eaton, right, after receiving a US flag with a bronze star attached during funeral services for their son, Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr., who died of a pulmonary embolism while serving in Iraq, at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Conn., Saturday, Aug. 23, 2003. At left is Staff Sgt. Eaton's cousin Tanner Eaton. (AP Photo/Steve Miller)	Capt. Michael Buck gives the flag from the casket of Sgt. Steven Wayne White to a family member at White's funeral Friday, Aug. 22, 2003, in Canton, Texas. White was killed last week when his armored troop carrier hit an anti-tank mine just outside Tikrit in Iraq. (AP Photo/Tyler Morning Telegraph, Herb Nygren Jr.)
Cindy Miles weeps at the casket of her son, Army PFC Timmy Brown, Jr. of Conway, Penn. as she is comforted by Maj. Steven Chung, Deputy Provost Marshall for the 99th Regional Readiness Command, after Timmy's funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Friday, Aug. 22, 2003. Timmy, assigned to D Company, 510th Military Intelligence Batallion at Fort Bragg, N.C., was killed by an explosive device August 12th in Taji, Iraq. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)	Lt. Gen. Ed Soriano, left, presents Jessica Hebert, sister of Spc. Justin Hebert who was killed in Kirkuk, Iraq, with an American flag during his military funeral, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2003, in Silvana, Wash. (AP Photo/The Herald, Meggan Booker)
Jacqueline A. Lambert, wife of Spc. James Lambert II who was killed in Iraq, watches officers fold the American flag from her husband's casket as they prepare to present it to her during funeral services Friday, Aug. 8, 2003, at the New Grove Baptist Church in Kenbridge, Va. (AP Photo/Lisa Billings)	Family members console each other following funeral services for Spec. James Lambert II at New Grove Baptist Church in Kenbridge, Va., Friday, Aug. 8, 2003. Lambert was killed in Iraq only days before he was scheduled to return home. (AP Photo/Lisa Billings)
U.S. Marines escort the remains of Master Gunnery Sgt. Dale Racicot from the Goffstown Christian Fellowship Church after his funeral, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003 in Goffstown, N.H. Racicot died of a heart attack hours after returning home from duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/Lee Marriner)	Adeline Maher, center, and William Maher, Jr., right, both of Yardley, Pa., are escorted from the funeral of their son William Maher III, 35, of Yardley, Pa., at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, N.J., Wednesday, Aug. 6. 2003. Maher, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, based at Ray Barracks, Germany, was killed July 28 by an explosive device while traveling in a convoy in Iraq. (AP Photo/Annie McCormick)
Annie Maher, left, is comforted by an unidentified mourner as they stand in front of the flag-drapped coffin of of her son Army Spc. William J. Maher III, 35, during funeral services at St. John The Evangelist Church in Lower Mayfield Township, Pa. Wednesday Aug. 6, 2003. Maher was killed on July 28 by an explosive device while traveling in a convoy in Iraq. (A P Photo/Jacqueline Larma)	Nicole Hitzges, right, stepsister of Army Spc. Chad Keith, cries as she attends funeral services, Friday, August 1, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery. Keith, of Batesville, Ind., was killed on July 7 when a roadside bomb exploded as his vehicle was patrolling Bagdad, Iraq . Seated left to right are Keith's mother Kim Hitzges, her husband Mark Hitzges, stepbrother Alex Hitzges, sister Courtney Creech, and stepsister Nicole Hitzges. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Dr. Barbara Porchia speaks at the funeral of her son Spc. Jonathan Cheatham Sunday, Aug. 3, 2003, in Camden, Ark. The 19-year-old was killed in an ambush in Baghdad on July 26. (AP Photo/Camden News, Freddy Lea)	Dr. Barbara Porchia, left, mother of Army Spc. Jonathan Cheatham, and his sister Portia Cheatham, sit at the graveside funeral service for Cheatham Sunday, Aug. 3, 2003, at Memorial Park Cemetery in Camden, Ark. Cheatham,19, was killed in an ambush in Baghdad on July 26. (AP Photo/Camden News, Freddy Lea)
Kim Hitzges, left, mother of Army Spc. Chad Keith is comforted by her husband Mark Hitzges as they attend funeral services for Keith, Friday, August 1, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery. Keith of Batesville, Ind., was killed on July 7 when a roadside bomb exploded as he was patrolling Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)	Nicole Hitzges, step-sister of Army Spc. Chad Keith is comforted by an unidentified serviceman as they attend funeral services for Sgt. Keith, Friday, August 1, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery. Keith of Batesville, Ind., was killed on July 7 when a roadside bomb exploded as he was patrolling Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Kim Hitzges, center, mother of Army Spc. Chad Keith and her husband Mark Hitzges cry during funeral services for Sgt. Keith, Friday, August 1, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery. Kieth of Batesville, Ind., was killed on July 7 when a roadside bomb exploded as his vehicle was patrolling Bagdad, Iraq. At right is Keith's stepbrother Alex Hitzges (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)	Kim Hitzges, mother of Army Spc. Chad Keith is given the flag from his casket at funeral services, Friday, August 1, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery. Keith of Batesville, Ind., was killed on July 7 when a roadside bomb exploded as he was patrolling Baghdad, Iraq. Left to right, sitting are Kim, Mark Hitzges, stepfather, Alex Hitzges, stepbrother, Courtney Creech, sister, and Nicole Hitzges, stepsister. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
**ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS OF AUG. 23-24 ** Sgt. Jenni McKinley talks about recovering from injuries, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003, at Fort Campbell, Ky., that she sustained in April in Iraq. Her right hand, which she was using to hold her weapon out a Humvee window, was crushed when a tire blowout in the Iraqi desert caused the vehicle to roll over. She is participating in a support group for wounded soldiers. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)	**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 ** Pfc. Robert Shrode is photographed with his father, Mel Shrode, during a family reunion, Saturday, Aug. 30, at the family home in Danville, Ala. Robert Shrode, 29, was one of five soldiers wounded June 5 when Iraqi militants ambushed their patrol vehicle in Fallujah, about 30 miles west of Baghdad. A sixth was killed in the fight. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, John Godbey)
Chief Warrant Officer Stuart Contant, right, an Apache helicopter pilot, talks about recovering from spinal injuries he sustained when he crashed in an Apache helicopter in Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003, at Fort Campbell, Ky., as Chief Warrant Officer Emanuel Pierre, left, and soldier Terry James, center, listen. Pierre was also injured in the same helicopter crash. Contant and Pierre started a support group for wounded soldiers. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)