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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.

June 2004               52 Died
Janet Pennington, right, is escorted to the funeral of her husband Staff Sgt. Gregory V. Pennington, by Casuality Asstiance Officer Betty Clarke, left, at Holston High School in Damascus, Va., Wednesday, June 30, 2004. Pennington was killed in Iraq, June 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, Earl Neikirk)	Mourners outside St. Joseph's Church in East Rutherford, N.J., console each other after a funeral Mass for New Jersey National Guard Sgt. Frank Carvill, Saturday, June 12, 2004. Carvill, 51, of Carlstadt, N.J., was killed June 4 in an ambush in Iraq. (AP Photo/The Record, Danielle P. Richards)
Marines carry the casket of Marine Cpl. Tommy L. Parker, Jr., after Parker's funeral service, Tuesday, June 29, 2004, in Heber Springs, Ark. Parker, 21, was killed June 21 in an ambush in Ramadi, Iraq, one of four marines to die. He was serving with a sniper platoon of the First Marine Division out of Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)	Rosa Linda Robles is carried to her car after becoming overwhelmed with emotion at the funeral services for her newphew Army Pfc. Richard "Ricky" Rosas, Thursday June 3, 2004, in Lansing, Michigan. Rosas was killed in Iraq on May 25, 2004. (AP Photo/Daymon J. Hartley)
Six-month-old Jireh Nissi Fraise his held by her grandmother Janice King as her other grandmother, Juanita Fraise, right, kisses her during the funeral for the child's father, Cpl. David Maurice Faise, In New Orleans, La., Monday, June 21, 2004. Fraise, 24, of New Orleans, died June 7, in Kandahar, Afghanistan "when an improvised explosive device hit his patrol," according to a defense department statement. Faise's wife Jenniece is at left. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Jennifer Zdon)	Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Peterson presents the Purple Heart to Khizr Khan the father of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan of Bristow, Va. during his funeral Tuesday, June 16, 2004, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Khan was killed June 8 in Iraq when a vehicle packed with explosives drove into the gate of his compound. (AP Photo/Potomac News, Peter Cihelka)
Stephen Gray, second from right, holds the flag from his son's casket as he and his wife, Marion Gray, right, his daughter Sarah Moulton, and her fiance' Jeff Kieslich, left, mourn over Vermont National Guard Sergeant Jamie Gray's casket at the end of a funeral service for the guardsman at the Gray farm, Monday, June 14, 2004, in Calais, Vermont. Gray died June 7, 2004 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)	Christopher Sykas, 10, gets a hug from Margaret Sykas during a funeral, Monday, June 14, 2004, at the Gray Farm in Calais, Vt. ,for his former step-father, Vermont National Guard Sergeant Jamie Gray, who was killed in Iraq, June 7, 2004, by a roadside bomb. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)
Jim Walters stands in the street as the funeral procession for Marine Staff Sgt. Marvin Best passes by in Prosser, Wash., Tuesday, June 29, 2004. Best was killed June 20, 2004 whlie fighting in Iraq. (AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, Hillary Wheat)	Soldiers carry the casket of Staff Sgt. Humberto Timoteo, of Newark, from his funeral Mass at Our Lady of Fatima in the Ironbound section of Newark, N.J., Saturday, June 12, 2004. Timoteo was killed last week in Irag serving with the 3rd Battalion of the 112th Field Artillery of the New Jersey National Guard. (AP Photo/The Star Ledger, Jim Pathe)
Siblings of Army Pvt. Markus J. Johnson eulogize him during funeral services at Springfield, Mass. Symphony Hall Saturday, June 12, 2004. The siblings are, from left, Laura Thomas, Craig Thomas, Nathan Johnson, and Dwayne Johnson. Markus Johnson, assigned to the Third Air Defense Artillery, First Infantry Division, based in Kitzingen, Germany was killed June 1 when an Avenger air defense vehicle, a Humvee equipped with a missile launcher, rolled over. (AP Photo/Nathan Martin)	Luella Bolding mother of Lance Cpl. Todd J. Bolding receives the flag during funeral services for her son Friday June 11, 2004 at the Houston National Cemetery in Houston. Bolding, of Manvel, Texas, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Pendleton, Calif. died Thursday June 3, 2004 from wounds received from hostile action in Iraq's Anbar Province. (AP Photo/The Facts, Todd Yates)
The funeral procession carrying the body of New Jersey Guardsman Christopher Duffy heads for interment at the Ocean County Memorial Park in Toms River, N.J., Friday, June 11, 2004. Duffy was one of four New Jersey Guardsmen killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb earlier this month. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)	Melanie Odums, left, sits next to her father, Israel Santiago, and stepmother, Ramona, at the funeral of her husband, Army Spc. Charles Odums II, on Wednesday afternoon, June 9, 2004, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Sandusky, Ohio. Odums, a 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)
Lisa and Harold E. Zimmer Jr. parents of fallen soldier Pfc. Nicholaus Zimmer watch as their son's casket is carried to the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Columbus, Ohio for his funeral, Wednesday June 9, 2004. Pfc. died in Iraq when his vehicle was hit by rocket propelled grenades. (AP Photo/Columbus Dispatch, Neal C. Lauron)	Rebecca Henderson, fourth from right, mother of Marine Cpl. Matthew Henderson who was killed in Iraq, stands with other family members as they mourn by his casket during the funeral ceremony in Lincoln, Neb., Thursday June 3, 2004. Henderson's wife Jaimie Henderson is third from right. Cpl. Henderson, 25, was killed May 26 along with another Nebraskan, Lance Cpl. Kyle Codner, 19, of Shelton, while they were clearing roads of explosive devices. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
July 2004                         60 Died
Jacquelyn Syverson, wife of Army Maj. Paul Syverson III, wipes away tears during her husband's funeral on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Syverson was killed in Balad, Iraq on June 16th. Syverson's son Paul IV is second from left, and two month old daughter Amy is third from left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)	Shirley Huston kisses the casket containing the remains of her son Lance Cpl. James Huston Jr., after a funeral ceremony Saturday, July 10, 2004, at the Hermiston Cemetery, in Hermiston, Ore. Huston, a Hermiston native, died last week in a vehicle accident on his second tour of duty in Iraq. Huston was buried with full military honors. (AP Photo/East ORegonian, E.J. Harris)
Family members cry during the funeral of 22-year-old U.S. Marine Juan Lopez, in his hometown of San Luis de la Paz in central Mexico, Sunday, July 4, 2004. Lopez emigrated to Georgia as a teenager, joined the Marines and was killed in an ambush in Iraq on June 21.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)	Members of the McCaffrey family are shown after funeral proceedings for Army Sgt. Patrick R. McCaffrey Thursday, July 1, 2004, in Tracy Calif. McCaffrey, a 34-year-old medic was killed June 22 in an ambush in Balad, Iraq. His National Guard unit was based in Petaluma, Calif. He was promoted posthumously from specialist to sergeant. (AP Photo/Tracy Press, Hime Romero)
Members of the Ft. Bragg Army Funeral Detail Unit carry the casket of N.C. National Guardsman Capt. Chris Cash while his wife Dawn Cash, far right, watches with funeral director Don Wilkerson, Thursday, July 1, 2004 at Pinewood Memorial Park in Greenville, N.C. Cash was killed Thursday, June 24 in Iraq. (AP Photo/ The Daily Reflector, Jessica Webb)	The funeral procession of Army Sgt. Charles Kiser, made up of family, military and police, fills county Highway LS Thursday, July 1, 2004, enroute to the Armory in Sheboygan, Wis., for a public visitation and funeral service. Kiser, 37, was killed by a car bomb Thursday, June 24, 2004, outside Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Sheboygan Press, Bruce Halmo)
JoAnn Dantzler, right, is comforted by an unidentified man after receiving a U.S. flag in honor of her son, Spc. Torey J. Dantzler, during funeral services, Friday, July 30, 2004, in Columbia, La. Dantzler, 22, was killed June 22 when a homemade bomb detonated near his convoy in Samarra, Iraq. (AP Photo/The News-Star,Brandi Jade Thomas)	A family member carries the box containing the U.S. flag that was draped over the casket of Army Sgt. Dale Thomas Lloyd following his funeral Tuesday, July 27, 2004, in Dallas, Pa. Lloyd was killed Monday, July 19, 2004, in a mortar attack in Iraq, his family said. (AP Photo/The Citizens' Voice, Warren Ruda)
Danny Bruce Daniels Sr. holds a flag presented to him following the military funeral for his son, Spc. Danny Bruce Daniels II, Thursday, July 29, 2004, at Pie Cemetery in Mingo County, W.Va. Daniels, 25, assigned to the 630th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade in Bamberg, Germany, was killed in Baghdad on July 20 when his patrol vehicle came under attack by small arms fire and hit an improvised explosive device, the U.S. Department of Defense said. Atright is Sgt. Scott Rinchack, the team leader for Daniel's unit flew in from Iraq for the ceremony and will return to Iraq on Friday, July 30, 2004. (AP Photo/The Logan Banner, Michael Browning)	U.S. Army Sgt. Scott Rinchack, an Army team leader in Iraq, carries the folded flag Thursday, July 29, 2004, from the casket of Spc. Danny Bruce Daniels II, who was buried in Pie Cemetery in Pie, W.Va. Daniels was killed in combat in Baghdad, Iraq, July 20, 2004. Rinchack was Daniels' team leader and flew in from Iraq to attend the funeral. (AP Photo/The Logan Banner, Michael Browning)
The U.S. Marine Honor Guard fires a 21-gun salute at the funeral for Cpl. Todd Justin Godwin Thursday, July 29, 2004, in Zanesville, Ohio. Godwin was killed in Iraq on July 20 by a piece of shrapnel from an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/The Columbus Dispatch, Neal C. Lauron)	Joani and Patrick Kelly accept the U.S. flag at their son Lance Cpl. Bryan Kelly's funeral in Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday, July 28, 2004. Kelly was killed in Iraq on July 15, 2004. Presenting the flag the to the Kelly's is 1st Lt. Casey Farrell, Brian Kelly's platoon leader during his first tour of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/Herald and News, Ron Winn)
Celeste Lawrence sits in front of the flag covered casket of her husband, Marine Cpl. Jeffrey Lawrence, during funeral services at Holy Hope Cemetery in Tucson, Saturday, July 24, 2004. Lawrence, 22, Tucson, Ariz., was killed July 6, in Iraq's Anbar province. He was assigned to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force; Camp Lejeune, N.C. (AP Photo/Tucson Citizen, Francisco Medina)	Chris Cash's sons Mathew, 11, and Christopher, 13, watch while Maj. Gen. William Ingram gives a flag to Cash's widow, Dawn Cash, during Cash's funeral Thursday, July 1, 2004, at Pinewood Memorial Park in Greenville, N.C. Cash, an officer with the 30th Brigade, 120th Infantry in the Army National Guard who was killed in Iraq, was also posthumously awarded a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantry Badge. (AP Photo/The Daily Reflector, Jessica Webb)
Joseph Garmback, sunglasses, left-center, stands with his wife, Marylon, as the casket of their son, Army Spc. Joseph M. Garmback Jr. is carried into St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in Cleveland, for a funeral mass Friday, July 16, 2004. Spc. Garmback was killed last month in Iraq during a mortar attack. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)	Melanie Bowen, widow of Ohio Army National Guard Pfc. Samuel Bowen, meets with the media after funeral services for her husband Saturday, July 17, 2004, at Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland. Bowen was killed while serving in Iraq and was part of the Ohio Army National Guard's 216th Engineer Battalion. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Marvin Fong) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **
Michael Adle, center, father of Lance Cpl. Patrick Adle, receives the U.S. flag as his ex-wife and mother of his son, Pamela Adle-Watts, seated holding flag, watches during a funeral ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery, Tuesday, July 13, 2004, in Arlington, Va. Cpl. Adle, of Maryland, was killed on June 29 after the vehicle he was riding in hit a roadside bomb in Iraq. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)	A hearse carrying the body of Staff Sgt. Stephen Martin passes by the Rhinelander (Wis.) Police Department on Thursday, July 8, 2004. Martin, a Rhinelander police officer and Army reservist, died July 2 after receiving head and internal injuries June 24 when a truck bomb exploded near his checkpoint outside a U.S. military compound in Mosul. A funeral was held Thursday for Martin at Rhinelander High School. (AP Photo/Rhinelander Daily News, Heather Schaefer)
U.S. Marines arrive to the church during the funeral of 22-year-old U.S. Marine Juan Lopez, in his hometown of San Luis de la Paz in central Mexico, Sunday, July 4, 2004. Lopez emigrated to Georgia as a teenager, joined the Marines and was killed in an ambush in Iraq on June 21.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)	A military funeral detail from Fort Knox, Ky., carries the casket of Spc. Danny Bruce Daniels II, Thursday, July 29, 2004, during a funeral service at Pie Cemetery in Mingo County, W.Va. Daniels, 25, assigned to the 630th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade in Bamberg, Germany, was killed in Baghdad on July 20 when his patrol vehicle came under attack by small arms fire and hit an improvised explosive device, the U.S. Department of Defense said. (AP Photo/The Logan Banner, Michael Browning)