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26 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.

May 2004               80 Died
Army Staff Sgt. Pamela M. Thomas, right, talks about her husband, Staff Sgt. Kendall Thomas, with her father, Willie White, in doorway, and her brother-in-law, Alfred Bryden, at the White home in Frierson, La., Friday, May 7, 2004. Thomas, 36, a native of the Virgin Islands, was killed in a vehicle accident in Baghdad on April 28. He was assigned to Battery C, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. His funeral will be held Saturday. (AP Photo/The Times, Greg Pearson)	Ryann Roukey, holding hand over mouth, wife of Army Reserve Sgt. Lawrence Roukey, looks on as his casket is placed in a hearse following the fallen soldier's funeral at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Porltand, Maine, Friday, May 7, 2004. Roukey, a 33-year-old father of two, was killed Monday, April 26, 2004, in Iraq, the Defense Department said. A member of the Lewiston-based 3rd Battalion, 304th Regiment, Roukey had been mobilized as an individual soldier from the unit, according to Maine military officials. (AP Photo/Shawn Patrick Ouellette)
Maj. Gen. Don Morrow, the adjutant general of the Arkansas Army National Guard, left, hands a folded American flag that draped the coffin of Capt. Arthur "Bo" Felder with the 39th Infantry Brigade of the Arkansas Army National Guard, to his mother, Cheryl Stuart, after his funeral, Monday, May 3, 2004, at the Arkansas State Veteran's Cemetery in North Little Rock, Ark. Felder was killed April 24 in a rocket attack north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)	Beate Medina, second right, widow of Staff Sgt. Oscar Vargas-Medina, of Chicago, walks behind an officer carrying her husband's ashes at his funeral, Wednesday, May 12, 2004, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in the Punchbowl area of Honolulu. Vargas-Medina, 32, who was with the 84th Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, based at Schofield Barracks, was killed May 1 when his convoy was attacked south of Al Amarah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Carol Cunningham)
John Pernaselli, hand to face, with his son, an Army Capt. John Pernaselli, wait to enter Our Lady of Lords Church in Brighton, N.Y. Tuesday April 4, 2004 for the funeral of his other son Petty Officer 1st Class Michael J. Pernaselli, a sailor killed in Iraq on April 24. (AP Photo/Democrat and Chronicle, Max Schulte)	Master at Arms Seaman Christopher Myers, left, is consoled by Master Chief Rick Neal, after attending the funeral of Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Eugene Watts, Monday, May 3, 2004, in Knoxville, Tenn. Watts, 28, was one of three servicemen to die in the attack April 24 in the northern Persian Gulf. In the background is Lt. Jr. Grade Jason Wilkerson. (AP Photo/The Knoxville News Sentinel, Joe Howell)
** RETRANSMISSION FOR IMPROVED QUALITY ** An Army funeral detail escorts the casket of Staff Sgt. Kendall Thomas, 36, out of the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church after funeral services, Saturday, May 8, 2004 in Frierson, La. Thomas died in a vehicle accident in Baghdad, April 28th. (AP Photo/The Times, Robert Ruiz)	Members of the United States Army War College, Carlisle Funeral Detail Team carry the casket of Army Spc. Christopher K. Bingaman from the First United Methodist Church following funeral services, Friday, May 7, 2004 in Frackville, Pa. Bingaman, along with Chief Warrant Officer Bruce Boggs, and 1st Lt. Candace L. Voegele-Daniels, were killed when the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter they were in crashed April 26 during a training flight from Fort Bragg, N.C. ( AP Photo/Republican & Herald, Johnathan Paroby)
Pam Kinder, and Bobby Kinder, 9, pray during the veteran's ceremony at Daytona Memorial Park & Funeral Home, in Daytona Beach, Fla., May 31, 2004. Pam Kinder's husband and Bobby's father, served as an Army Sgt. in Vietnam and died Dec. 6, 2003 from cancer. (AP Photo/Daytona Beach News-Journal, Joanna Kaney Olivari)	Jane Shaver, center, holds a U.S. flag, presented to her at the military funeral for her son, Army Sgt. Jeffrey R. Shaver, Saturday, May 29, 2004, at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Maple Valley, Wash. Shaver was killed in Iraq on May 12. Shaver's sister, Gwen Kelley, is on the right. Casualty Assistant Officer John Wilhite, of the Army National Guard, is on the left. (AP Photo/King County Journal, Gary Kissel)
Retired Sgt. 1st Class Carlos D. Miranda salutes the body of his son, Staff Sgt. Troy "Leon" Miranda, during a funeral service Saturday, May 29, 2004, inside the Wickes School Auditorium in Wickes, Ark. The junior Miranda was killed May 20, 2004, during combat in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Texarkana Gazette, Chris Dean)	Dianna Curran, second from the left, is surrounded by family and friends while the casket of her husband, Spc. Carl F. Curran II, is escorted by pall bearers during his funeral Thursday, May 27, 2004 in Bradys Bend, Pa. Curran was killed in action May 17, 2004 while serving with the 1st Battallion, 107th Field Artillery Unit of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in Iraq. Curran's death, along with that of Spc. Mark J. Kasecky, 20, in McKees Rocks, marked the first time since World War II that soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 107th Field Artillery had been killed in action. Both were being buried Thursday.(AP Photo/Dave Miller)
The flag-draped casket bearing the remains of Marine Cpl. Andrew Zabierek is placed in a hearse following funeral services at St. John the Evangelist church in Chelmsford, Mass., Saturday, May 29, 2004. Zabierek was killed May 21, south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)	Mourners salute and place their hands over their hearts as a Marine honor guard carries the flag-draped coffin of Marine Lance Cpl. Bob W. Roberts, 30, out of the church following funeral services in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, May 26, 2004. Roberts, who was raised in Portland but lived in Newport, Ore., was killed May 17 by hostile fire in Iraq's Al Anbar province. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
U.S. Marines serve as pallbearers during Marine Pfc. Michael Carey's funeral Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at Woodlawn Baptist Church in Hopewell, Va. Carey, a combat engineer, was serving in Iraq when he drowned while searching for "improvised explosive devices." He is survived by his wife Heather Carey and their infant daughter Mia. (AP Photo/The Hopewell News, Mandy Szcotak)	Oklahoma Go. Brad Henry, speaks at the funeral service for Army Spc. Kyle Brinlee, at the Pryor High School auditorium in Pryor, Okla., Wednesday, May 19, 2004. Brinlee, 21, died May 11, when the explosion of an improvised explosive device struck the vehicle he was in while on a convoy. He was the first Oklahoma National Guard member killed in Iraq. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Amanda Taylor, front, is comforted by her mother Doris Taylor Monday, May 24, 2004, after the funeral for SSgt. James Harlan at Elmwood Cemetery in Owensboro, Ky. Doris Taylor is James Harlan's sister and Amanda is Harlan's niece. Harlan, a reservist with the 660th Transportation Company in Cadiz, Ohio, was killed in Iraq, May 14, 2004. (AP Photo/messenger-Inquirer, Robert Bruck)	Ron Baum, 10, dressed in fatigues, and his mother Cindi, escorted by a U.S. Marine, watch as the casket of Ron's father and Cindi's husband, Gunnery Sgt. Ronald Eric Baum, is placed in a hearse after the fallen soldier's funeral, Tuesday, May 18, 2004, in Altoona, Pa. The 38-year-old Marine from western Pennsylvania who volunteered to go to Iraq, was killed Monday, May 3, 2004, in the Al Anbar province, where the turbulent cities of Ramadi and Fallujah are located, according to defense officials. (AP Photo/Altoona Mirror, Kelly Bennett)
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius speaks at Army Pvt. Jeremy Drexler's funeral Thursday, May, 13, 2004, in Topeka, Kan. Drexler was killed May 2 when his convoy was attacked in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Topeka Capital-Journal, Mike Shepherd)	Angela Dossett, her daughter Raimiee, 5, left, and her niece Madison Welch, right, stand in front of the casket of Angela's husband, Petty Officer 2nd Class Trace Dossett, during his funeral in Wapello, Iowa, Wednesday, May 12, 2004. Dossett was one of four members of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 killed by hostile fire May 2 in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Hawk Eye, John Lovretta)
Sara Berg, sister of Nicholas Berg, speaks to reporters Wednesday, May 12, 2004, near West Chester, Pa., and begs media members not to try to attend either the funeral or memorial service for her brother. Nicholas Berg was beheaded in Iraq; his body arrived in the United States on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Inquirer, Bob Williams)	Pallbearers carry the casket of Staff Sgt. Eric Petty past a row of gravestones and mourners during his funeral service at Fort Gibson National Cemetery in Fort Gibson, Okla., Tuesday, May 11, 2004. Petty, 28, who grew up in Fort Gibson, was killed by small arms fire May 3 while providing security at a weapons cache in Salman Al Habb, Iraq. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, John Clanton)
Camryn Darling, daughter of Army Pfc. Norman Darling, sits on the lap of her mother Amy and clutches the flag given to her during the funeral of her father Norman at the Mass. National Cemetery in Bourne, Mass., Monday May 10, 2004. Darling, a member of the 1st Armored Division was killed in Iraq while on patrol on April 29th. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)	With the flag-draped casket of Sgt. Landis Garrison resting on a Port Byron fire truck behind them, U.S. Army Pfc. Cody Eldridge embraces his cousin Lisa Mason, a Hillsdale, Ill., firefighter, following funeral services Saturday, May 8, 2004, at Riverdale High School in Port Byron, Ill. Garrison, a member of the 333rd Military Police Company, which is based in Freeport, Ill., died in late April in Iraq. (AP Photo/Quad City Times, Greg Boll)
Edris Stephens, left, is handed the flag, that draped the coffin of her son, Staff Sgt. Kendall Thomas, from Brig. Gen. Walter Zink during funeral services for Thomas, Saturday, May 8, 2004 in Frierson, La. Standing next to Stephens is her daughter-in-law, Dorcus Blyden. Thomas, a native of the Virgin Islands, died April 28th. He was assigned to Battery C, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division. (AP Photo/The Times, Robert Ruiz)	Army Staff Sgt. Pamela Thomas, right, is comforted by her mother, Eunice White at the funeral for Thomas' husband, Staff Sgt. Kendall Thomas, Saturday, May 8, 2004 in Frierson, La. Kendall Thomas was killed in Baghdad in a vehicle accident on April 28th. (AP Photo/The Shreveport Times, Robert Ruiz)
Capt. Brent Bombach salutes as Marine Honor Guard pallbearers take the casket of Cpl. Scott Michael Vincent of Bokoshe, Okla., from the Bokoshe High School gymnasium to a waiting hearse after funeral services Friday, May 7, 2004. Vincent, 21, was one of two Marines killed April 30 "due to hostile action" in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, the U.S. Dept. of Defense said. Capt. Bombach served with Cpl. Vincent in the same unit for a year and a half and they were in Iraq together earlier in the war. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Michael Wyke)	Alesia Boggs, center, walks with her son Drew Boggs, 10, and an unidentified member of an Army honor guard before the funeral service for her husband, Chief Warrant Officer Bruce D. Boggs, 37, Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at the Catawba Memorial Park in Hickory, N.C. Boggs was one of three Army aviators killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a South Carolina riverbank during a night training flight last week. (AP Photo/The Hickory Daily Record, Nathan W. Armes)
Family, friends and members of the 159th Aviation Regiment from Fort Bragg, N.C., pay their respects at the cemetery, Friday, May 7, 2004, in Frackville, Pa., during the funeral service for Army Spc. Christopher K. Bingaman of Frackville, Pa. Bingaman was killed in a Black Hawk Helicopter crash during a training flight in North Carolina, April 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Republican & Herald, Johnathan Paroby)	Sgt. Joshua Shane Ladd's mother, Deborah Ladd, center, gets a hug from a friend of the family during a visitation for her son at the McClain-Hays Funeral Chapel in Philadelphia, Miss., on Thursday, May 6, 2004. Ladd was killed Saturday, May 1, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Meridian Star, Kyle Carter)
Army soldiers carry the coffin of Patrick W. Kordsmeier before the beginning of his funeral services at Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, May 5, 2004. Kordsmeier, a chief warrant officer for the Arkansas National Guard, was killed April 24 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Neemah Aaron)	Pastor Paul Bly recites a prayer over the casket of Staff Sgt. Cory W. Brooks, as Brooks' father, Darral, lower left, looks on during funeral services for Brooks Monday, May 3, 2004 in Philip, S.D. Brooks, of the 153rd Engineer Batallion (combat) died April 24 in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Christopher Gannon)
Military personnel sit together during the funeral services for Staff Sgt. Cory W. Brooks Monday, May 3, 2004 in Philip, S.D. in the Philip High School Armory. Brooks, of the 153rd Engineer Batallion died April 24 in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Christopher Gannon)	Lavinia Gelineau, center, walks behind the coffin of her husband, Maine National Guardsman Spc. Christopher Gelineau, following funeral services, Saturday, May 1, 2004 in Portland, Maine. Christopher Gelineau, 23, of Portland, Maine, was killed April 20 in an explosion outside Mosul, Iraq. His Army National Guard unit was based in Portland. (AP Photo/Joel Page)