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11 December 2004

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,329 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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

Thanks to D.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html

Apocalypse again

The next generation of shattered U.S. soldiers is already returning home and landing out in the streets. The number of ailing, homeless Iraq veterans doesn't yet begin to approach the fallout from Vietnam, but according to this UPI report, homeless advocates and mental health professionals are seeing the first of what they worry will be a much larger, longer-term trend.

"U.S. veterans from the war in Iraq are beginning to show up at homeless shelters around the country, and advocates fear they are the leading edge of a new generation of homeless vets not seen since the Vietnam era. 'When we already have people from Iraq on the streets, my God,' said Linda Boone, executive director of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. 'I have talked to enough (shelters) to know we are getting them. It is happening and this nation is not prepared for that.'

"'This is what happened with the Vietnam vets. I went to Vietnam,' said John Keaveney, chief operating officer of New Directions, a shelter and drug-and-alcohol treatment program for veterans in Los Angeles. That city has an estimated 27,000 homeless veterans, the largest such population in the nation. 'It is like watching history being repeated,' Keaveney said.

"Data from the Department of Veterans Affairs shows that as of last July, nearly 28,000 veterans from Iraq sought health care from the VA. One out of every five was diagnosed with a mental disorder, according to the VA. An Army study in the New England Journal of Medicine in July showed that 17 percent of service members return ing from Iraq met screening criteria for major depression, generalized anxiety disorder or PTSD."

One Marine, now in a shelter run by U.S. VETS in Los Angeles, described some of the images burned into his memory from the fighting in Iraq -- including the inadvertent killing of civilians at roadblocks.

"'We had a few situations where, I guess, people were trying to get out of the country. They would come right at us and they would not stop,' Lance Cpl. James Claybon Brown Jr., 23, said. 'We had to open fire on them. It was really tough. A lot of soldiers, like me, had trouble with that.'

"'That was the hardest part,' Brown continued. 'Not only were there men, but there were women and children -- really little children. There would be babies with arms blown off. It was something hard to live with.'"

-- Mark Follman

First Lt. Andrew C. Shields is show in an undated handout photo from Wofford College. Shields, 25, of Campobello, S.C., and Chief Warrant Officer Patrick D. Leach, of Rock Hill, S.C., died Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, in a two-aircraft crash in northern Iraq, according to a statement by South Carolina Adjutant General Stan Spears. (AP Photo courtesy of Wofford College via the Spartanburg Herald-Journal)	** FILE ** This undated family shows U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Todd C. Gibbs of Lufkin, Texas. Gibbs was killed Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Iraq, his family said. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News)
A firefighter hoses what is left of a car bomb that exploded as a U.S. military convoy passed by Saturday Dec. 11, 2004, in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, wounding no American forces, the military said. One Iraqi civilian was killed, according to eyewitnesses. (AP Photo)	People inspect what is left of a car bomb that exploded as a U.S. military convoy passed by Saturday Dec. 11, 2004, in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, wounding no American forces, the military said. One Iraqi civilian was killed, according to eyewitnesses. (AP Photo)
Sgt. Jamison Sweet, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines out of Bridgeton, Mo., collects casings after the Honor Guard delivered the 21 gun salute, at the funeral for Marine Cpl. Matthew A. Wyatt, of Millstadt, Ill. Wyatt, who died in Iraq on Dec. 3, was awarded a posthumous Purple Heart and was buried with full military honors Friday in Millstadt's Mount Evergreen Cemetery. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dawn Majors)	An Iraqi policeman stands near the body of an insurgent in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec. 10, 2004. The militant was killed along with one comrade while firing mortar rounds towards al-Muthana airport which houses an American base in the city's western district of Ali al-Saleh. Witnesses said the mortar rounds exploded and killed the insurgents. (AP Photo/Asa'ad Muhsen)
12/07/04 - Iraqi contractors expel nearly 48,000 gallons of foul-water and oil into a desert pit mobilize helping the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps dewater a large section of flooded streets in Fallujah, Iraq, Dec. 7, 2004. The Iraqi men quickly worked together to remove nearly 48,000 gallons of foul-water. The removal is important to prevent the spread of disease and allow for improved mobility throughout the city. (U.S. Navy Photo by Journalist 1st Class Jeremy L. Wood) (Released)	In this photo released by the US Marines, Marines of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines set out on a patrol while participating in Deer Drive, part of Operation Al Fajr, clearing the city of Fallujah, Iraq, of insurgent activity and weapons caches. Picture was taken on Nov. 26 2004. (AP Photo/USMC, SSgt. Jonathan C. Knauth )
From left, Laura Bush, Hadassah Teitelbaum, Dovid Felzenberg, Freida Felzenberg, Nechama Felzenberg, Ahuva Felzenberg, and President Bush look on as the Menorah is lit before the annual White House Hanukkah Reception on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004 in Washington. The Falzenberg's are the family of US Army Captain Shmuel Felzenberg of the 84th Engineer Battalion in Iraq. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)	South Korean protesters participate next to U.S. President George W. Bush's picture during an anti-government rally near the National Assembly in Seoul, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004. President Roh Moo-hyun made a surprise visit Wednesday to northern Iraq. The trip came as a parliamentary committee on Wednesday approved a government proposal to extend the deployment of South Korean troops in Iraq for another year. The Korean letters say on the banner " Withdraw the Occupation Forces from Iraq". (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
Paul Adams, a Maytag repairman who was recruited by the company after he served four years in the Army, replaces a pump on a washer Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, while making a service call in Bellevue, Wash. Former soldiers returning from Iraq or Afghanistan are finding that their military background has value at Maytag Corp., which has an aggressive recruiting program turning recently discharged soldiers into repair technicians. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)	** FILE ** In this January 2003 family file photo provided by Paul Adams, Adams is shown in a light moment at the Kuwaiti Air Base, where he was working as a wheeled-vehicle mechanic in the U.S. Army. Adams is now a Maytag repairman in Washington state and is one of many former soldiers returning from Iraq or Afghanistan are finding that their military background has value at Maytag Corp., which has an aggressive recruiting program turning recently discharged soldiers into repair technicians. (AP Photo/Courtesy Paul Adams, file)
Melissa Connor, a Nebraska Wesleyan University forensic science instructor, is seen in Iraq in an October 2004 photo released by the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Connor was in Iraq for approximately three months and helped analyze the bodies of Kurds found in Iraq, believed to be the victims of dictator Saddam Hussein's bloody regime.(AP Photo/Nebraska Wesleyan University)	12/08/04 - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld shakes hands with service members while at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Dec. 8, 2004. Rumsfeld visited Kuwait to meet with leadership to discuss issues of mutual interest and visit service members. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
A U.S. military convoy enters Iraq from Kuwait at Safwan border crossing Friday Dec. 10, 2004. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)	12/08/04 - Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld meets with Prime Minister of Kuwait Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah while in Kuwait, Dec. 8, 2004. Rumsfeld visited Kuwait to meet with leadership to discuss issues of mutual interest and visit service members. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
Col. Jack Rickert, one of the attornies for Lt. Michael R. Hall from Nashville, Tenn., talks to repoters before a trial at Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Miss., Friday, Dec. 10, 2004. Hall is on trial for an alleged rape that occured on Aug. 9, 2004 when the Tennesse National Guard 278th Regimental Combat Team was training on the base for depolyment to Iraq. (AP Photo/Hattiesburg American, George Clark)	12/07/04 - U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, (far left) Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, (left) Mrs. Lynn Cheney, Vice President of the United States Richard B. Cheney, and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai meet in the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec 7, 2004. Cheney and Rumsfeld visited Afghanistan to show their support for President Karzai during the first Afghan Presidential Inauguration. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)