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24 December 2004

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,353 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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

** FILE ** Cpl. Cory Michael Hewitt, shown in an undated photo released by his family, was among 14 U.S. soldiers killed Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq. Hewitt, 26, was a member of the U.S. Army's Fighting 705th Ordnance Co. and born in Wheeling, W.Va. (AP Photo/Hewitt family via Wheeling News Register)	Lee Yeatman of King George, Va., holds the arm of her son, Marine Lance Cpl. Adam Assur, during a candlelight vigil for National Gaurdsman Spc. Nicholas "Nick" Mason at King George High School in King George, Va., Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. Mason, 20, was killed Tuesday, Dec. 21, in an attack on a mess hall near Mosul, Iraq. Mason was assigned to the 276th Engineer Battalion, Virginia National Guard, Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star, Scott Neville)
This undated family photo shows Brett A. Hunter in Dauphin Island, Ala. The 29-year-old employee of a government contractor, KBR, a Halliburton Corp. subsidiary, was killed in Iraq Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004 when the bombing took the lives of 22 people and about 70 others. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Mobile Register)	**FILE** Nicholas "Nick" Mason, of King George, Va., is seen in an undated yearbook photo. Mason was one of 22 people killed Dec. 21, 2004 in an attack on a military facility in Mosul, Iraq, according to his father Vic Mason. Mason, 20, a former volunteer firefighter had been in Iraq with the Richmond, Va.-based 276th Engineer Battalion. (AP Photo/The Free Lance-Star)
** CORRECTS YEAR OF PHOTO TO 2000 - CORRECTS AGE TO 61, INSTEAD OF 51 ** Tony Stramiello Jr., of Astoria, Ore., shown in this Nov. 14, 2000, photo, was among the Americans killed in the attack at a U.S. military base in Iraq, officials said Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. Stramiello, 61, was working as a carpenter foreman for Halliburton Co. when he died in the Tuesday attack at a base in Mosul that killed 22 people. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Brent Wojahn)	Builder Chief Petty Officer Joel E. Baldwin, 37, shown in this undated U.S. Navy handout photo, was among the 22 people killed in an explosion in Mosul, Iraq on Tuesday. Baldwin was from the Republic of Panama and was a member of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7. He was a 15-year veteran who had been with NMCB 7, homeported in Gulfport, since 2003. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy via the Sun Herald)
** FILE ** Sgt. Lynn R. Poulin Sr., 47, of the Maine Army National Guard, who died in Tuesday's insurgent strike while soldiers gathered for lunch in Mosul, Iraq, Dec. 21, 2004, is shown in a photo provided by his family. (AP Photo/Family photo via Morning Sentinel)	This undated photo provided by the Somerville Town Office shows Thomas Dostie, a soldier with Maine Army National Guard's 133rd Engineer Batallion. Dostie, of Somerville, Maine, was one of two Mainers killed in an explosion that killed 22 on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Courtesy Somerville Town Office)
Barbara Worthley, sister-in-law to Sgt. Lynn Robert Poulin reacts as she meets with the media, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004, at the Poulin's home in Freedom, Maine. Poulin Sr., 47, was among 22 people killed by an insurgent strike while soldiers gathered for lunch Tuesday at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Bangor Daily News, John Clare Russ)	About 80 people hold a candlelight vigil in honor of Maine Army National Guard Spc. Thomas J. Dostie, a Somerville volunteer firefighter, outside the firehouse in Somerville, Maine, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. Dostie was one of two Mainers killed in an explosion Tuesday at a U.S. base in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Kennebec Journal, Joe Phelan)
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ed Morgan, left, of the Virginia National Guard 276th EN BN rides inside a Stryker armored vehicle beside an Iraqi National Guardsman while on their way to relieve troops from bridge traffic control duty in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. Their forward operating base near Mosul came under mortar attack Tuesday, killing 22 and injuring 69 in a mess tent during lunchtime. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer)	Army Sgt. Darren Cunningham, 40, shown in Iraq in July, 2004 in this courtesy photo provided by a friend, was killed in Baghdad, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004, during a mortar attack. Cunningham, a native of Groton, Mass., served with the 545th Military Police Company of the Army's 1st Cavalry out of Fort Hood, Texas. (AP Photo/Courtesy Photo via The Lowell Sun)
People look at a crater left when a natural gas tanker exploded in Mahoumdiya, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 23 2004, killing four people and injuring about 50, according to hospital director Dr. Dawoud al-Taei. The tanker, seen in background left, was en route to Baghdad when, according to witnesses, it was hit by a rocket and exploded. (AP Photo/Haidar Fatehi)	Iraqi men tend to the grave of a relative at an improvised graveyard in al-Saqlawiyah, Iraq, just west of Fallujah, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, where many of the people killed in last month's U.S.-led offensive on Fallujah are buried. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
An unidentified casualty is stretchered into an ambulance at the U.S. Airbase of Ramstein, southern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. Some 50 patients, most of whom were injured during Tuesday's attack in Mosul, Iraq, arrived at Ramstein Air Base Wednesday after a flight from Balad, north of Baghdad. It is not known whether the man pictured was one of those injured in the Mosul incident. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)	An unidentified casualty is stretchered into an ambulance at the U.S. Airbase of Ramstein, southern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. Some 50 patients, most of whom were injured during Tuesday's attack in Mosul, Iraq, arrived at Ramstein Air Base Wednesday after a flight from Balad, north of Baghdad. It is not known whether the man pictured was one of those injured in the Mosul incident. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, an unidentified soldier is moved onto a bed by medical personnel at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, Wednesday evening, Dec. 22, 2004. The service member was wounded in an attack on a dining facility in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Melvin G. Tarpley)	In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, an unidentified soldier is removed from an ambulance by medical personnel during a snow storm at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, Wednesday evening, Dec. 22, 2004. The service member was wounded in an attack on a dining facility in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Melvin G. Tarpley)
An unidentified casualty is carried on a stretcher from an Air Force C-141 transport plane at Ramstein Air Base in southern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. Some 50 patients, most of whom were injured during Tuesday's attack in Mosul, Iraq, arrived at Ramstein Air Base Wednesday after a flight from Balad, north of Baghdad. It is not known whether the person pictured was one of those injured in the Mosul incident. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)	An unidentified casualty is stretchered into an ambulance at the U.S. Airbase of Ramstein, southern Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. Some 50 patients, most of whom were injured during Tuesday's attack in Mosul, Iraq, arrived at Ramstein Air Base Wednesday after a flight from Balad, north of Baghdad. It is not known whether the man pictured was one of those injured in the Mosul incident. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, an unidentified soldier is removed from an ambulance by medical personnel during a snow storm at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, Wednesday evening, Dec. 22, 2004. The service member was wounded in an attack on a dining facility in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Melvin G. Tarpley)	In this image released by the Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld presents a Purple Heart to Sgt. Chris Scott, 1st Brigade 25th Infantry Division, while at Mosul Airfield, Iraq, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld made a surprise Christmas Eve visit to Iraq to show his support to service members and visit patients and staff from the 67th Combat Surgical Hospital. (AP Photo/DoD, MSgt James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force)
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld talks to a small gathering of soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, at Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 24, 2004. Rumsfeld is in Iraq to meet with troops and thank them for their service and their sacrifice during this holiday season. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
A U.S. stryker vehicle enters forward operating base Marez in Mosul, Iraq, under a security tower Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. Security at the base has been stepped up following Tuesday's suicide bomber attack on the base. The blast Tuesday was the deadliest single attack on a U.S. base, hitting the dining tent at lunchtime and killing 13 U.S. servicemembers, five American civilians, three Iraqi National Guard members, and one ``unidentified non-U.S. person.''(AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer).	U.S. Army Spc. Jon Arnold of Richmond, Va. lifts weights in front of other members of the 276th EN BN at forward operating base Marez in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. Security at the base has been stepped up following the deadliest single attack on a U.S. base, hitting the dining tent at lunchtime Tuesday and killing 13 U.S. servicemembers, five American civilians, three Iraqi National Guard members, and one ``unidentified non-U.S. person.''(AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer).
U.S. Army Spc. Christina Wynes of Stafford, Va. watches over a security gate at forward operating base Marez in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. Security at the base has been stepped up following Tuesday's suicide bomber attack on the base. The blast Tuesday was the deadliest single attack on a U.S. base, hitting the dining tent at lunchtime and killing 13 U.S. servicemembers, five American civilians, three Iraqi National Guard members, and one ``unidentified non-U.S. person.'' (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer).	Col. Rhonda Cornum, Commander of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, talks to journalists in Landstuhl, southern Germany, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. Cornum said that 35 soldiers and civilians with battle injuries from Mosul in Iraq were brought for medical treatment to Landstuhl Wednesday and Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Turkish construction workers hammer on a door frame while building a new guard tower at forward operating base Marez in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. Security at the base has been stepped up following Tuesday's suicide bomber attack on the base. The blast Tuesday was the deadliest single attack on a U.S. base, hitting the dining tent at lunchtime and killing 13 U.S. servicemembers, five American civilians, three Iraqi National Guard members, and one ``unidentified non-U.S. person.''(AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dean Hoffmeyer).	This photo released by the New Mexico National Guard shows from left, Spc. Nelson Cordova, Spc. Eric Padilla, Spc. Shaun Fernandez and Spc. Robert Martinez, members of the New Mexico National Guard's 515th Corps Support Battalion who will spend Christmas in Iraq. The unit, normally based in Springer, N.M., is operating out of a base near the Baghdad airport. (AP Photo/courtesy of New Mexico National Guard)
In this 2003 photo provided by the Ellsworth family, Marine Lance Cpl. Justin M. Ellsworth is shown. As more of our personal lives go digital, family members, estate attorneys and online service providers are increasingly grappling with what happens to those information bits when their owners die. This week, Ellsworth's father, John, publicized his struggle to access the Yahoo e-mail account belonging to his son, who was killed Nov. 13 in Iraq. Though Yahoo's policies state that accounts "terminate upon your death," John Ellsworth said his son would have wanted to give him access. (AP Photo/Family Handout Photo)	John Ellsworth is shown by his computer in Wixom, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004 with a screen saver showing his son Marine Lance Cpl. Justin M. Ellsworth, who died in Iraq Nov. 13, 2004. As more of our personal lives go digital, family members, estate attorneys and online service providers are increasingly grappling with what happens to those information bits when their owners die. This week, John Ellsworth publicized his struggle to access the Yahoo e-mail account belonging to his son. Though Yahoo's policies state that accounts "terminate upon your death," John Ellsworth said his son would have wanted to give him access. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Ghislaine Thomas embraces her son Staff Sgt. Jeremy Shives, after he returned from Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004. Shives was part of the 172 CSG Army unit stationed out of Broken Arrow. (AP Photo/Norman Transcript, Mary Pat Risinger)	In this photo released by the USO, comedian and radio talk-show host Al Franken meets with US soldiers at Abu Graib, Iraq Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004 as part of the USO/Armed Forces Entertainment "Hope and Freedom Tour 2004." (AP Photo/photo released by USO,Owen Franken)
This undated photo shows damage to CPA/Research Triangle Institute's compound in Al Kut, Iraq, after a Mahd Militia attack. A three-month investigation into RTI's Iraq work by the Winston-Salem Journal found the sheer violence in Iraq, an unwieldy bureaucracy and constantly changing instructions from Washington have not only crippled the democracy-building efforts, but also compromised the safety of civilians working there. (AP Photo/Winston-Salem Journal)	This undated photo shows an unidentified civilian worker with Research Triangle Institute's Kifaya Hussein, right, who was assassinated in broad daylight in front of her home in Iraq in late May. A three-month investigation into RTI's Iraq work by the Winston-Salem Journal found the sheer violence in Iraq, an unwieldy bureaucracy and constantly changing instructions from Washington have not only crippled the democracy-building efforts, but also compromised the safety of civilians working there. (AP Photo/Winston-Salem Journal)
Two French journalists freed from captivity in Iraq, Christian Chesnot, left, and Georges Malbrunot answer reporters' questions after arriving home Wednesday Dec. 22, 2004 in Villacoublay, west of Paris. The two arrived home to a tearful welcome from their families, ending a four-month drama that had gripped this country, which had opposed the war in Iraq.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)	Pfc. Alex Major, right, kisses his girlfriend, Ashley Dodds, as his sister, Siarra Spruill, left, and his mother, Juli Spruill, second from left, look on as he arrives at Portland International Airport in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004. Major won a plane ticket home for the holidays, in a lottery, while serving in the Sadr City area of Bagdad, Iraq. He will return to Iraq at the end of a two week holiday. Major's sister, Jerecho Edmondson, third from left, looks on as she holds a banner made bySiarra. (AP Photo/The Columbian, Janet L. Mathews)
Steve and Jessica Koth return to the altar after lighting the unity candle at St. Peter's Church in Slinger, Wis., Thursday afternoon, Dec. 23, 2004, during their wedding ceremony. Steve Koth, a Marine corporal, will soon be deployed to Iraq for a third time. (AP Photo/West Bend Daily News, Sam Castro)	Brittany Bergquist, 14, foreground, and her brother, 12-year-old Robbie, left, pose with parents Gail and Bob in their Norwell, Mass., home Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. With $14 from their piggy banks, the pair and their parents started Cell Phones For Soldiers, which provides prepaid calling cards for American soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait. The organization raises money by collecting old cell phones and selling them to companies that refurbish them for resale on the Internet, then use it to buy the calling cards.(AP Photo/Sarah Brezinsky)
** ADVANCE FOR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29 **Pamela Sloss, widow of National Guard Sgt. Jeffrey Sloss, poses at home in Union, S.C. on Sept. 22, 2004. Sloss, whose husband killed himself after returning from duty in Iraq, holds the U.S. flag that covered his casket. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)	A doctor checks on a wounded man in the town of Samarra, Iraq, some 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Baghdad. Two people died and three were injured when a roadside bomb exploded missing a passing US military convoy. (AP Photo/Hameed Rashid)
U.S. Army Spc. George Perez, 21, of Carteret, N.J., prepares to make his first parachute jump since his leg was amputated below the knee Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, over Sicily Drop Zone at Fort Bragg. He was wounded in 2003 in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq. Perez said earlier this year that one of his goals was to jump again so he could deploy with his unit to Afghanistan early in 2005. (AP Photo/U.S Army 82nd Airborne, Sgt. Chuck D. Meseke)	A Doctor checks on a wounded man in the town of Samarra, Iraq, some 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Baghdad. Two people died and three were injured when a roadside bomb exploded missing a passing US military convoy. (AP Photo/Hameed Rashid)
Bashaar Hadi practices walking with an artificial limb in Baghdad's Ibn al-Quf hospital Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. Hadi lost his leg after he was wounded during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq last year. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, Pool)	A man wounded in a mortar attack on his home in Baghdad's al-Dora district in Iraq is brought to Yarmouk hospital Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)
Curtis Mills, of Shapleigh, Maine, sits by a decorated Christmas tree at his home, Monday, Dec. 13, 2004. Mills, a postal carrier, belongs to the Army Reserve's 94th Military Police company that is believed to have the distinction of being the longest deployed military reserve component since World War II. He returned home from Iraq after spending 11 months recovering after a roadside bomb peppered his body in shrapnel. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)	** CORRECTS TO PHOTO AS STAND-ALONE, NOT FOR USE AS ADVANCE ** U.S. Marine Alex Nicoll, second from left, sits on his hospital bed with his mother, Penni Nicoll, left, father, Larry Nicoll, right, and brother, Will Nicoll, at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004, in, Bethesda, Md. Alex Nicoll got pinned down in a firefight in Fallujah and suffered an injury that cost him his leg. Nicoll's platoon was going house-to-house, ferreting out insurgents when he was shot seven or eight times in his left leg and hit by a grenade. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
** FILE ** Dr. Paul Lynch, left, Research and Development coordinator with the New York-based Advanced Medical Technology Institute of Beth Israel, and Mark Ryan, a medical student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine play a video game at a laparoscopic surgical training simulator to simulate a surgeon's use of the video games as potential tools for honing the skills of military medics, at the Video Game Entertainment Industry Technology and Medicine Conference in the Marina Del Rey area of Los Angeles. Friday, Dec. 10, 2004. A study done by Dr. James Rosser of the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City has shown a significant correlation between video game experience and proficiency at laparoscopic surgery. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)	A device used to detect the presence of chemical nerve agents is shown in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 23, 2004. The sensor that can detect chemical contaminants, was developed by a University of Pittsburgh professor and is being recognized by the Army as one of greatest inventions of the last year. Inventions like Alan Russell's have taken on more prominence in the last year as fighting continues in Iraq, officials said. (AP Photo/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pam Panchak)