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25 November 2004

1,274 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.

February 2004               31 Died
Dawn Mancini, widow of Sgt. 1st Class Curtis Mancini is comforted by Davie Police Lt. Brad during Mancini's funeral Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004, in Davie, Fla. Hundreds of mourners attended a memorial service Wednesday for Sgt. 1st Class Curtis Mancini, a Davie police officer and Army reservist killed in an explosion at a weapons cache near Ghazni in Afghanistan. At back is Davie Police Chief John George. (AP Photo/Miami Herald, Marsha Halper)	Deida Sturges cries after being presented a U.S. Flag at the funeral for her husband Spc. William R. Sturges Jr., 24, Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 4, 2004, at the South Bend Cemetery in South Bend, Pa. Spec. Sturges was among three killed when a car bomb exploded at a U.S. checkpoint west of Baghdad Jan. 24, 2004. (AP Photo/Valley News Dispatch, Justin Merriman)
** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MARCH 13-14 **Rose Marie Dietz Slavenas holds a photo of her son, Army 1st Lt. Brian Slavenas, in his baseball uniform Feb. 25, 2004 in Rockford, Ill. "This is the photo I want the world to see of him." Slavenas was killed on Nov. 2, 2003, in Iraq when his helicopter was hit by enemy fire. At his mothers request, he was not buried in his uniform and did not have a military funeral. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)	Members of the 1st Squadron, 16th Armored Cavalry Regiment honor guard carry the casket of Army 2nd Lt. Jeffrey Graham out of the First Methodist Church following funeral services in Frankfort, Ky., Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004. Graham was killed in Iraq on Feb. 19, 2004. (AP Photo/The State Journal, Amy Wallot)
Teacher Brian Carriveau takes a moment during the funeral for Army Pfc. Nichole Frye at Lena High School Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004, in Lena, Wis. Frye was killed Feb. 16, 2004, by a roadside bomb as she rode in a convoy in Iraq. (AP Photo/Green Bay Press-Gazette, Corey Wilson)	Command Sgt. Maj. Robert Haglund, center, of the 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion in Ashwaubenon, Wis., leads the removal of the United States flag from the casket during the funeral of Pfc. Nichole Frye at Lena High School on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004. Frye was killed Feb. 16, 2004 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Green Bay Press-Gazette, Corey Wilson)
Kate Mooney of Conway, Ark., seated center, wife of 1st Lt Adam G. Mooney, receives the flag that draped his casket at the Old Trinity Cemetery in Church Creek, Md., after funeral services Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004. Mooney died last month in a helicopter crash in Iraq while searching for a missing soldier. (AP Photo/Dee Marvin)	Pallbearers put the casket of 1st Lt. Adam Mooney into a hearse Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004, in Cambridge, Md., after Mooney's funeral. More than a thousand people gathered by the Choptank River on Tuesday to mourn Mooney, who died last month in a helicopter crash in Iraq while searching for a missing soldier. (AP Photo/ The Journal, Jason Turner)
Adel Ramirez, the younger brother of Army Spc. Eric Ramirez, speaks during his brothers funeral at La Primera Iglesia Bautista in Mascotte, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004. Spc. Ramirez died Feb. 12, 2004 when his unit, the 670th Military Police Company of the Army National Guard based in National City, Calif., was ambushed in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Daily Commercial, Christian Fuchs)	An honor guard led by Brig. Gen. James P. Combs, left, salutes as the coffin of U.S. Army Spc. Eric Ulysses Ramirez is carried to a hearse following funeral services in Mascotte, Fla., Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004. Ramirez died Feb.12 of multiple wound injuries sustained when his unit, the 30th MPCO, Det. 649, was ambushed with rocket-propelled grenades in Iraq. Ramirez, 31, had been in the California National Guard and had only 42 days left in Iraq when he was killed. (AP Photo/The Daily Commercial, Christian Fuchs)
The flag-drapped casket of Pfc. Bryan Nicholas Spry, 19, is brought out of Kent County High School in Worton, MD, following a funeral service Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004. Spry was killed when a bridge collapsed plunging the vehicle he was in into a water-filled ditch in Iraq Feb. 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Dee Marvin)	Spc. Michael Funk, left, and Staff Sgt. Kevin Sebastian of the Mason City based 1133rd Transportation Company of the Iowa National Guard, pay their respects at the funeral of Spc. Josh Knowles in Rockwell, Iowa, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004. Knowles was killed Thursday, Feb. 5, 2004, when the convoy he was traveling in was struck by enemy mortar fire near the Baghdad airport. (AP Photo/The Mason City Globe Gazette, Arian Schuessler)
In front of the East Haven Congregational Church in East Haven, Conn., a squad from the 10th Mountain Division fire a 21-gun salute after funeral services for Sgt. Benjamin L. Gilman Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004. Sgt. Gilman, 28, was killed in an accidental explosion Jan. 29 while he and members of his unit were disposing a weapons cache in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/The Record Journal, Chris Angileri)	Teresa Turner, right, accompanied by her 5-year-old daughter Tabitha, receives the United States flag at the funeral of her husband Staff Sgt. Roger Clinton Turner, Jr. at the Greenwood Cemetery in Sisterville, W.Va., Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004. Sgt. Turner was killed by a mortar attack in Iraq on Feb.1, 2004. (AP Photo/Bob Bird)
Molly James, wife of 2nd Lt. Luke James of Hooker, Okla., accepts the American flag that draped his casket during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004. James, 24, was one of three soldiers killed last month in an explosion near Iskandariyah, Iraq. At left, his six-month-old son Bradley is held by an unidentified family member. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)	Molly James, the wife of 2nd Lt. Luke James of Hooker, Okla., center, and his mother Arleen James, right, take part funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004. James, 24, was one of three soldiers killed last month in an explosion near Iskandariyah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
A hearse bearing the body of Spc. Justin Scott, 23, of Bellevue, Ky., a soldier who was killed Jan. 28, 2004, in an explosion at a weapons cache in Afghanistan, leaves his funeral service at the Bellevue High School gym. Scott was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum, N.Y. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Patrick Reddy)	Jeff Sollars, in wheelchair, brother-in-law of Army Staff Sgt. Sean G. Landrus, leads the procession out of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Thompson, Ohio, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004, after funeral services for Landrus. Landrus was wounded in action in Khalidiyah, Iraq on Jan. 27th, and died from his injuries on Jan. 29th at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq. (AP Photo/Jamie-Andrea Yanak)
An Army Honor Guard carries Sgt. Randy Rosenberg's casket from St. Anne Church after the funeral mass Friday, Feb. 6, 2004, in Berlin, N.H. Despite a snowstorm blanketing New Hampshire with snow and freezing rain for most of Friday, about 400 people gathered at the church to mourn the death of a 23-year-old Rosenberg, who was killed in an attack at a U.S. checkpoint in Iraq last week. (AP Photo/The Conway Daily Sun, Bruce Bedford)	** CORRECTS SPELLING OF SMETTE AND DATELINE **Charlotte Smette holds the flag that draped her son National Guard Sgt. Keith Lee Smette's coffin during his funeral in Makoti, N.D., Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004. Smette was killed near Fallujah, Iraq, Jan. 24, 2004. Smette was a member of the 957th Multi-Role Bridge Company. He was the third North Dakota soldier to be killed in Iraq since the war started. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid)
March 2004               42 Died
Orlando Vicente, left, receives the flag from the casket of his son, Marine Cpl. David Vicente during funeral services, Saturday, March 27, 2004, in Methuen, Mass. Seated next to Vicente from left; his wife Celeste, son Daniel and Cpl. Vicente's fiancee Alexandra Jacobs. Cpl. Vicente, 25, died March 19 in a clash with insurgents near the town of Hit, Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, based in Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)	A grieving couple, front, center, identified by church officials as the mother and father of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Anthony S. Lagman, watch with other relatives and a funeral official as Lagman's body is carried by U.S. Army pallbearers from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Yonkers, New York, Tuesday, March 30, 2004. Lagman, 27, of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment of the Army's 10th Mountain Division, stationed at Fort Drum in upstate New York, was killed March 18 while fighting in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)
Melanie Odums reads a tribute to her late husband, Army Spc. Charles Odums II, pictured inside the wreath, at his funeral on Wednesday afternoon, June 9, 2004, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Sandusky, Ohio. Spc. Odums, a Army medic with the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq, was killed on May 30 when the Humvee he was driving was hit by an explosive device in Baghad. (AP Photo/The Register, Abigail Bobrow)	An U.S. Army Honor Guard member hands a folded flag to Ron Kreider, father of U.S. Army Pvt. Dustin Kreider Monday, March 29, 2004, during funeral services in Baxter Springs, Kan. Kreider was killed in a weapon test-firing accident near Samarra, Iraq. (AP Photo/Morning Sun, C. Cottrell)
Marine Corps veteran Bill Geary, left, and Army veteran Bob Jones, salute as the funeral procession for Marine Cpl. Andrew D. Brownfield makes its way to Holy Cross Cemetery Monday, March 29, 2004, in Akron, Ohio. Brownfield died March 18 in a mortar attack at an air base near Baghdad. (AP Photo/Haraz Ghanbari)	Capt. John F. Kurth's son, John, looks at one of his dad's medals that was given to him during his fathers funeral service Saturday, March 27, 2004, in Columbus, Wis. Kurth was serving in the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment and had been in Iraq less than a month when a roadside bomb exploded March 13 at Tikrit, killing him and a Maryland solider. Captain Kurth's mother, Retta Kurth, holds the Unites States flag that was on the casket. (AP Photo/Beaver Dam Daily Citzen, Cory Schaefer)-
Members of a U.S. Army color guard carry the casket of U.S. Army Sgt. Daniel J. Londono as Boston Police salute following the funeral service, Monday, March 22, 2004, at Our Lady of Czestochowa church in Dorchester, Mass. Londono was killed in Baghdad along with two other soldiers, Saturday, March 13 when an improvised explosive device struck the military vehicle he was riding in, according to the Department of Defense. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)	Jessica Riekenberg, left, Dana Sims, center and Michael Barrett, right, friends of Marine Pfc. Brandon Clinton Smith, 20, of Fayetteville, Ark., look on during the military funeral of Smith at the National Cemetary in Fayetteville, Ark., Friday, March 26, 2004. Pfc. Smith was killed March 17, 2004 in Al Qaim, Iraq. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
Marine Lance Cpl. Nathan Aime, right, kneels in tribute to Pfc. Rick Morris during Morris' funeral service Thursday, March 25, 2004, in Monterey, La. Morris, of Lubbock, Texas, recently died in a mortar attack while on patrol in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Natchez Democrat, Ben Hillyer)	Capt. Jeffrey Horseman, left, presents an American flag that draped the casket of Spc. Jason Christopher Ford of Bowie, Md., to his parents Florence Newell and Joseph Ford, seated, during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, March 23, 2004. Ford was killed while on his second patrol in Tikrit, when a roadside bomb exploded next to his Humvee on March 13. (AP Photo/Adele Starr)
Army Spc. Ronald Carrasquillo speaks during the funeral service in Goldsboro, N.C., Sunday, March 21, 2004, about his twin brother North Carolina National Guardsman Spc. Jocelyn ``Joce'' Carrasquillo, 28, who died March 13, 2004 in Iraq. Jocelyn Carrasquillo was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 120th Infantry based in Wilmington, but sent to Iraq about three weeks ago with the 30th Heavy Separate Brigade, a unit based in Clinton. Ronald Carrasquillo returned from combat in Iraq for his brother's funeral. (AP Photo/Karen Tam)	Isabel Carrasquillo leans over to kiss her son, Spc. Jocelyn Carrasquillo, goodbye prior to the start of his funeral service Sunday, March 21, 2004, at The First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Goldsboro, N.C. Spc. Carrasquillo, with the 120th Infantry Regement of the North CArolina National Guard, was killed when his convoy hit a land mine in Iraq on March 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Karen Tam)
A military burial detail from Ft. Campbell, Ky., remove the American flag draped coffin of Staff Sgt. Joey Dunigan, 37, of Fort Riley, Ks., from the hearse during his funeral services at Hamlet Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery Sunday, March, 21, 2004, in Benton, Ky. Dunigan was killed March 11, along with another soldier by a homemade bomb in Fallujah, Iraq, when their vehicle was hit by an improved explosive device, according to the Pentagon. (AP Photo/The Paducah Sun, Stephen Lance Dennee)	Cheryl Cope Hill, right, weeps with her sisters, Wendy Sikorski left, and Tamitha Cope, center, following a funeral for Hill's husband at Crown Memorial Park in Pineville, N.C. Thursday, March 18, 2004. Army Spc. Christopher K. Hill, 26, died March 11 after his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Fallujah, Iraq. He was based at Fort Riley. Other survivors include his 1-year-old daughter, Cierra. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Todd Sumlin)
Brig. Gen. Robert Durbin, meets with Wai Ling, father of Spc. Roger Ling after prsenting him with the American flag that draped his casket during funeral service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, March 4, 2004. Ling, a 20-year-old from New York was killed Feb. 19, 2004, by hostile fire in Khaldiyah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Lauren Burke)