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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.

September 2003               33 Died
The body of Army Sgt. Anthony O. Thompson's is carried to its final resting place by a funeral detail from Fort Jackson, S.C., as his widow Valerie, background center, is joined by family and friends for the graveside service Sunday, Sept. 28, 2003, at Canaan Baptist Church in Branchville, S.C. Sept. 28, 2003. Thompson was killed in combat in Tikrit, Iraq on Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/The Times and Democrat, Van Hope)	Jamie Miller, center, is flanked by unidentified firends and family, as she grieves over her husband's casket during his funeral at Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veteran's Memorial Cemetery, in North Hanover, N.J. Monday, Sept. 29, 2003. Staff Sgt. Frederick Miller Jr. was killed Sept. 20 while on a security patrol in Iraq. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)
Marc Gauthier, chaplain for the 5th Special Forces Group at Ft. Campbell, Ky., presides over funeral services at Fredonia Cemetery near Judsonia, Ark. Sunday Sept. 21, 2003 for Master Sgt. Kevin Morehead, formerly of Little Rock, who was killed Sept. 12 in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photos/ The Daily Citizen, Janet Wilson)	Friends of the Belanger family, Arlene Tierney, left, and Janet Uden, react during the funeral procession Thursday, Sept. 4, 2003, in Deerfield, Mass., for U.S. Army Sgt. Gregory Belanger, who was killed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Daily Hampshire Gazette, Carol Lollis)
A Rhode Island National Guardman escorts the mother of Staff Sgt. Joseph Camara as Camara's wife walks behind them as they exit funeral services for Camara at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford, Mass., Friday, Sept. 12, 2003. Camara was killed in Iraq while on duty with the 115th Military Police unit he belonged to. Camara was also a New Bedford police officer. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)	Members of the Rhode Island National Guard troops carry the casket of Staff Sgt. Joseph Camara outside Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford, Mass., following funeral services Friday, Sept. 12, 2003. Camara was killed in Iraq while on duty with the 115th Military Police unit. Camara was also a New Bedford police officer. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
James Sarno Jr. front, cries into the flag from his brother's coffin, during a memorial service Sunday, Sept. 7, 2003, at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in North Las Vegas as his cousin Brian Sarno, top, comforts him. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Cameron Bryan Sarno was killed in an accident in Kuwait earlier this week. His funeral will be held next week in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)	Sherri Lawton cries during funeral services for her husband Staff Sgt. Mark Lawton,Friday, Sept. 5, 2003, in Hayden, Colo. Lawton, an Army Reservist with the 244th Engineer Battalion, was killed Aug. 29 while serving in Iraq when his convoy was hit by a rocket propelled grenade. (AP Photo/The Steamboat Pilot & Today John Russell)
Sabrina Dent, mother of Spc. Darryl Dent, 21, a soldier with the District of Columbia National Guard, touches her son's casket during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Monday, Sept. 8, 2003. Dent, who grew up in North Carolina, was killed Aug.26. 2003, by a makeshift explosive device while on convoy duty near the town of Arimadi, Iraq. (AP Photo/Stephen J. Boitano)	Dignitaries, from left, Massachusetts Gov. Mit Romney, Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri, Sen. Jack Reed D-R.I. and Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty stand with their hands over their hearts as the casket of Rhode Island National Guardman Staff Sgt. Joseph Camara is placed inside a hearse following funeral services at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford, Mass., Friday, Sept. 12, 2003. Camara was killed while on duty in Iraq. Camara was also a New Bedford police officer. (AP Photo/Victoria Arocho)
October 2003            47 Died
	Family members of Army Staff Sgt. Joseph Bellavia of Wakefield, Mass., attend his funeral service Friday, Oct. 31, 2003, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Bellavia was killed in Iraq in an attack by armed men outside a mosque in Karbala, Iraq. From left are: Bellavia's wife, Christine Bellavia; Joseph Bellavia, father; Jonathan Bellavia, brother; and Christopher Bellavia, brother. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Tia Ung, left, consoles her mother, Heang Chum, during the funeral for their brother and son, Lance Cpl. Sok Khak Ung, at his burial site at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, Calif., Monday, Oct. 27, 2003. Ung, 22, returned from active duty in Iraq in July, but was killed at his father's Long Beach, Calif. home earlier this month by an unknown gunman, according to police. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)	Tia Ung, second from right, and her mother, Heang Chum, far right, pray at the funeral for their brother and son, Lance Cpl. Sok Khak Ung, as Buddhist monks approach the casket at his burial site at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, Calif., Monday, Oct. 27, 2003. Ung, 22, returned from active duty in Iraq in July, but was killed at his father's Long Beach home earlier this month by an unknown gunman, according to police. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Ruby Ann Mann Powell, center, wife of Army Spc. James Edward Powell holds their daugher, Lauren, as members of Alpha Troop 1/16 Cavalry Regiment fold the United States flag during funeral services for Spc. Powell at Lebanon Junction cemetery Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003, in Lebanon Junction, Ky. Powell was killed in Iraq two weeks ago while serving with the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division based in Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/The News Enterprise, Neal Cardin)	Ruby Powell, widow of Army Spc. James E. Powell, clutches a U.S. flag which had been draped over her husband's casket, as Maj. Gen. Michael Rochelle, standing at left, reads a proclamation presenting Powell the Bronze Star during the funeral service Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003, at Lebanon Junction (Ky.) City Cemetery. Powell was killed Oct. 12 near Beiji, Iraq, when his Bradley armored vehicle set off a land mine. (AP Photo/The News-Enterprise, Neal Cardin)
Carolyn Williams, wife of Spc. Michael Williams, looks upward as she is escorted from funeral services at the Antioch Baptist Church in Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday, Oct. 25, 2003. Michael Williams, with the Army National Guard 105th Military Police, was killed by a roadside explosive device near Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 17, 2003. (AP Photo/Don Heupel)	** CORRECTS NAME TO SHARON AND MOTHER OF SGT. SWISHER ** Sharon Swisher, mother of Army Staff Sgt. Chris Swisher, embraces a U.S. flag that covered her son's casket during his funeral Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003, in Lincoln, Neb. Swisher was killed Oct. 9, 2003, while on patrol in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
A pallbearer detail consisting of Army drill sergeants from Ft. Benning, Ga., carry the casket of Pvt. 2 Benjamin Freeman, 19, of Valdosta, Ga., during the funeral for Freeman Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003, in Valdosta, Ga. Freeman was with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment based out of Ft. Carson, Colo., and was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom on Oct. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/The Valdosta Daily Times, Paul Leavy)	Mourners gather around the flag-draped coffin of Army Pfc. Stephen Wyatt during his funeral Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003, in Kilgore, Texas. Wyatt was killed in Iraq on Oct. 13. (AP Photo/Longview News-Journal, Les Hassell)
Family and friends of Army Spc. Dustin K. "Dusty" McGaugh, 20, mourn during the graveside funeral service for McGaugh at the Fayetteville National Cemetery in Fayetteville, Ark., Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003. Pictured from left, are McGaugh's brother James McGaugh, II; Dustin's father James McGaugh; an unidentified woman, Dustin McGaugh's twin sister Windy McGaugh; and Dustin's stepmother Katrina McGaugh. McGaugh, who was a member of the 17th Field Artillery Brigade of Fort Sill, Okla., was killed in a friendly fire incident in Balad, Iraq, Sept. 30. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
November 2003                   84 Died
Pallbearers and funeral home workers load the casket of Sheldon Hawk Eagle into a horse drawn hearse Monday, Nov. 24, 2003 in Eagle Butte, S.D. Hawk Eagle was among 17 Americans killed when two Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 15. Services including a memorial escort and powwow are planned this week on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The funeral service will be Tuesday morning, with burial to follow at Black Hills National Cemetery. (AP Photo/Doug Dreyer)	Students join hands for comfort during funeral services at Amherst High School for Staff Sgt. Eugene A. Uhl III Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2003, in Amherst, Wis. Uhl was killed Nov. 15 when two Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Mosul, Iraq. The Bronze Star and Purple Heart were posthumously awarded to Uhl and presented to his parents by Gen. Nathaniel Thompson, representing the Army chief of staff at the funeral. (AP Photo/Stevens Point Journal, Thomas Kujawski)
Cherish Piche, right, wife of Capt. Pierre Piche, 101st Airborne Division, who was killed Nov. 15, 2003, in Iraq, receives the flag from her husband's funeral ceremony as she leaves Ready Funeral Home in Essex Junction, Vt., Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)	A funeral detail from Fort Sill, Okla. stands with their rifles during a funeral for U.S. Army Sgt. Joel Perez at Arlington Cemetery in Kearny, N.J., Monday, Nov. 10, 2003. Perez was killed when an Army helicopter was shot down in Iraq on Nov. 2. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)
A bugler plays ''Taps'' as mourners look on during the double funeral of Sgt. Ernest Bucklew and his mother Saturday, Nov. 8, 2003, in Beaver Falls, Pa. Bucklew, who was killed in a missile attack as he was returning home for his mother's funeral was buried along with her Saturday. Mary Ellen Bucklew, 57, of Darlington Township, died Oct. 31 of an aneurism as she drove home from work. Her 33-year-old son was on emergency leave two days later when the CH-47 Chinook helicopter he was in was shot down near Fallujah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Dave Miller)	Sitting next to her husband Brian Hart, Alma Hart cries during the funeral for their son, Army PFC John D. Hart, at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003. Hart, who was from Bedford, Mass., was killed in action on Oct. 18, 2003 in Taza, Iraq, when enemy forces ambushed his patrol using rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. Hart's sisters Rebecca 16, second from right, and Elizabeth, 13, right, also attended the funeral. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
**CORRECTS SOLDIER'S RANK**Kirsten Sinley Coleman, left, is comforted by her mother, Sharon Sinley, as she mourns the loss of her husband, U.S. Army Sgt. Gary Brent Coleman, at his funeral at Johnson Memorial Park on Nov. 30, 2003 in Pikeville, Ky. Coleman was killed in Iraq on November 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Shawn Poynter)	**CORRECTS SOLDIER'S RANK** A mourner stands at the coffin as friends and family gather in Pikeville, Ky on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2003, for the funeral of U.S. Army Sgt. Gary Brent Coleman, 24. Coleman, who was killed in Iraq on November 21, was supposed to arrive Thanksgiving weekend for a two-week vacation from war. (AP Photo/Shawn Poynter)
Theron Perna takes a moment to collect himself while recalling memories of his lifelong friend Capt. George Wood at Wood's funeral Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003, at St. Mary of Mt. Carmel Church in Utica, N.Y. Wood, who was stationed with the Army's 4th Infantry Division in Iraq, was killed on Nov.20, 2003 when an explosive struck the vehicle he was traveling in. (AP Photo/The Observer-Dispatch, Heather Ainsworth)	Members of the Army's 10th Mountain Division Funeral Detail prepare to drape the United States flag over Army Capt. George Wood's casket Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003, at St. Mary of Mt. Carmel Church in Utica, N.Y., while members of Wood's family including his wife, Lisa, center right, watch. Wood, 33, was killed in Iraq last Thursday when the vehicle he was riding in struck an explosive. (AP photo/The Observer-Dispatch, Heather Ainsworth)
Clutching the flag Beth Karlson of Clintonville, Wis. blows a kiss at her son's coffin following funeral services for Army Ssgt. Warren S. Hansen, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003 in Belle Plaine Township, Wis. Hansen, attached to the 101st Airborne Division, was among 17 killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Post-Crescent, Kristyna Wentz-Graff)	Joseph DiGiovanni holds the flag presented to him at the funeral for his son, Spc. Jeremiah Joseph DiGiovanni, in Pricedale, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003. At right is Jeremiah DiGiovanni's grandfather, Edward DiGiovanni, an Army veteran. DiGiovanni was killed Nov. 15 in a helicopter crash in Iraq. The 21-year-old soldier was assigned to A Company, 4th Battalion, 101th Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Ky., where he served as Class One Helicopter Crew Chief on a Black Hawk helicopter. He had been in Iraq since February 2003. (AP Photo/Enterprise Journal, Matt Williamson)
Lt. Col. Dennis Newton, a Fort Lewis chaplain and the Rev. Douglas Chamberlain, right, the pastor at Calvary Lutheran Church in Federal Way, Wash., read at the funeral of Spc. John R. Sullivan, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2003. Sullivan, 26, was one of 17 soldiers killed earlier in November when two Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/King County Journal, Gary Kissel)	A military color guard places the casket of Chief Warrant Officer Scott Saboe into a waiting hearse following funeral services, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2003, in Willow Lake, S.D. Saboe, 33, was among 17 U.S. soldiers who died when two Army helicopters collided in Mosul, Iraq earlier this month.(AP Photo/Watertown Public Opinion, Wayne Hammond)
The casket of Army 1st Lt. Jeremy Wolfe is carried from Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Menomonie, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2003, by family members, including his father, David Wolfe, center, after the funeral services. Wolfe, 27, died Nov. 15 in Iraq when two Black Hawk helicopters collided. (AP Photo/Eau Claire Leader Telegram, Shane Opatz)	John Fife, left, and Betty Russell, mother of the deceased, hold each other Monday, Nov. 24, 2003, in Portland, Texas, at the funeral of Sgt. John Wayne Russell, 101st Airborne, who died in the crash of two Blackhawk helicopters in Mosul, Nov. 15. Fife described himself as Sgt. Russell's best friend. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller-Times, George Gongora)
Kassandra Collins, background, widow of Staff Sgt. Gary L. Collins of Hardin, Texas, and their daughter Taylor, 8, pause at Collin's casket during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003. Collins was killed Nov. 8 in Fallujah, Iraq whenhis vehicle was hit by a explosive device. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)	An honor guard carries the casket of Staff Sgt. Gary L. Collins of Hardin, Texas, past his family and friends including daughter Landry, 6, center, widow Kassandra, second from right, and Brig. Gen. Philip Coker, assistant deputy chief of staff for Developments, U.S. Army, right, during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003. Collins was killed Nov. 8 in Fallujah, Iraq whenhis vehicle was hit by a explosive device. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
An honor guard carries the casket of Army Spc. Robert Wise during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, Nov. 24, 2003. Wise, a member of the Florida National Guard, was killed Nov. 12 when his squad came under attack during a patrol in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh)	Florida National Guard Deputy Commander Brig. Gen. Stephen Villacorta, right, presents the flag that draped the casket of Army Spc. Robert Wise to family members during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Monday, Nov. 24, 2003. Wise, a member of the Florida National Guard, was killed Nov. 12 when his squad came under attack during a patrol in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh)
Members in the 10th Aviation Brigade's Honor Guard of the 10th Mountain Division of Fort Drum, N.Y., stand outside during a funeral for Capt. Pierre Piche, 101st Airborne Division, in Essex Junction, Vt., Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2003. Piche was killed Nov. 15, 2003, in Iraq. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)	An unidentified soldier from a U.S. Army Honor Guard, right, carries a box containing the cremated remains of Chief Warrant Officer Kyran Kennedy at the gravesite in Milton Cemetary prior to the arrival of the funeral procession, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003, in Milton, Mass. Kennedy was killed in a Black Hawk Helicopter crash near Tikrit, Iraq earlier this month. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Brig. Gen. Randal R. Castro presents a U.S. flag to Sonia Fearon-Yorke, biological mother of Jamaican-born U.S. Army Spc. Marlon Jackson at his funeral, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003, in Kingston, Jamaica. Beside her is Jackson's adopted parents, Leighton Jackson and Lois La Grenade. To Fearon-Yorke's right is Sue Cobb, U.S. Ambassador. Jackson died Nov. 11 in a roadside bomb attack near Baghdad. (AP Photo/Collin Reid )	The casket with the body of Army Spc. Marlon Jackson is carried by members of the U.S. Army after a funeral service in Kingston, Jamaica Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003.The Jamaican born soldier was killed in Iraq on Nove. 11,2003 in a bomb blast. (AP Photo/Collin Reid )
Michele Rose is presented the Purple Heart and Bronze Star in front of the casket of her husband, Staff Sgt. Scott C. Rose, 30, during Rose's funeral, in Springfield, Vt., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003. The soldier's father, retired Lt. Col., Alfred Rose, is at right. Rose was one of six soldiers killed on Nov. 7, 2003, when his Black Hawk helicopter came under attack, exploded and fell to the ground in Iraq. (AP Photo)(Vyto Starinskas/Rutland Herald)	The flag-covered casket of Army Pvt. Kurt Frosheiser, of Des Moines, Iowa, is carried from the All Saints Catholic Church following funeral services, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003, in Des Moines. Frosheiser was killed Nov. 8, 2003, in Baghdad when the vehicle he was riding in ran over an explosive device. Frosheiser's twin brother, Joel, is at left in gray suit. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Doreen Kenny, mother of Jacob Fletcher, and her husband, Ray Kenny, place flowers on Fletcher's casket at his funeral Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003, at Long Island National Cemetery in Pinelawn, N.Y. Fletcher, 28, a Long Island paratrooper, was killed Friday, when explosives struck a bus he was on in the town of Samara, Iraq. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)	A flag is presented to Marlowe Fletcher, and his stepson, Joshua, 10, at the funeral for Fletcher's son, Jacob Fletcher, at Long Island National Cemetery in Pinelawn, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003. At left is Doreen Kenny, Fletcher's mother, and Ray Kenny, his stepfather. Fletcher, 28, a Long Island paratrooper, was killed Friday, when explosives struck a bus he was on in the town of Samara, Iraq. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, right, consoles Andrew Buehring, 9, during a funeral ceremony for his father, Lt. Col. Charles Buehring, Monday, Nov. 17, 2003 in Arlington National Cemetery. Buehring was fatally injured during a rocket-propelled grenade attack on Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad on Oct 26. Seated with Buehring is his older brother Nicholas, 12, left, and his mother Alicia Buehring, second right. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)	Alicia Buehring, right grieves with her sons Andrew, 9, second from right, and Nicholas, 12, left, and unidentified relatives during the funeral ceremony for her husband, Lt. Col. Charles Buehring Monday, Nov. 17, 2003 in Arlington National Cemetery. Buehring was fatally injured during a rocket-propelled grenade attack on Al-Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad on Oct 26. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The casket of Chief Warrant Officer Sharon Swartworth is carried during funeral services, Monday, Nov. 17, 2003 in Arlington National Cemetery. Swartworth is the first female soldier killed in the Oreparation Iraqi Freedom to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)	Secretary of the Army Les Brownlee, greets Emma Louise Teal, during the funeral ceremony for her son, Capt. John Teal, at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003. Seated at left is his father, Joseph Teal. Standing at right is Sen. John Warner, R-Va., and Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., center. Teal, 31, from Montpelier, Va., who was based at Fort Hood and worked as a medical officer with the 4th Infantry Division, was killed Oct. 23, when a mine exploded outside Baqouba, Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)