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23 March 2005.

See also Eyeballing the Iraq Kill and Maim Zone.

1,576 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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


Photo captions by Associated Press.
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A portrait of Marine Pfc. Clarence Phelps, top right, painted by his father, John R. Phelps, pictured, is one of the 1,327 "Faces of the Fallen," a portrait art show of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan at the Women's War Memorial, Tuesday, March 22, 2005, in Arlington, Va. More than 200 artists are contributing to a show. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

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Rodney and Towina Nightingale, embrace in front of, "Faces of the Fallen," a portrait art show exhibit of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan at the Women's War Memorial, Wednesday, March 16, 2005, in Arlington, Va. Towina lost her son, U.S. Army Pfc. Nathan Stahl who died Sept., 21, 2004 at the age of 20. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

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Don Griffith salutes the flag-draped casket of his son, Staff Sgt. Donald D. Griffith Jr., during Donald's funeral at Rose Hill Cemetery in Mechanicsville, Iowa, Monday, March 21, 2005. Staff Sgt. Griffith, assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash., was killed in Iraq on March 11, 2005. His father is a veteran of the Air Force. (AP Photo/Gazette, David Wallace)

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U.S. Army Major Gen. Jerome Johnson, left, consoles Stacy Griffith of Mechanicsville, Iowa, the wife of Staff Sgt. Donald D. Griffith Jr., following his funeral service at Mechanicsville Elementary School in Mechanicsville, Monday, March 21, 2005. Griffith, 29, was killed while trying to protect his fellow soldiers during a suicide bombing in Telefar, Iraq on March 11. He was stationed in Fort Lewis, Wash. (AP Photo/ Gazette, David Wallace)

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The body of Louisiana Army National Guard Sgt. Paul Heltzel is moved to a hearse after landing at Baton Rouge, La., Metro Airport Monday, March 21, 2005. Heltzel was killed in a car bomb exposion in Iraq on March 15. Heltzel was a member of the Louisiana National Guard Charlie Company of 2nd Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team. (AP Photo/The Advocate, Richard Alan Hannon)

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**FILE** This Nov. 117, 2004, photo released by the Kentucky Army National Guard on March 21, 2005, shows Spc. Jonathan A. Hughes. Hughes, of Lebanon, Ky., was killed on Saturday, March 19, 2005, in Iraq when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device during an escort patrol for a convoy. Hughes was assigned to Bravo Battery 1st Battalion 623rd Field Artillery, based in Campbellsville, Ky. He joined the Guard in May 2001 when he was 17. (AP Photo/Kentucky Army National Guard)

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Spc. Paul Thomason III, of Jefferson City, Tenn., is shown in this undated handout photo. Thomason, 37, with the 278th Regimental Combat Team, was killed Sunday, March 20, 2005, when his convoy was attacked in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo/family photo via The Mountain Press)

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Gayle Thomas, left, the mother of Spc. Paul Thomason III, and his 10-year-old daughter Megan Thomason sit on a couch, Monday, March 21, 2005, in Jefferson City, Tenn., Thomason, 37, with the 278th Regimental Combat Team, was killed when his convoy was attacked in the city of Tikrit, Iraq, over the weekend. (AP Photo/The Mountain Press, Curt Habraken)

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This undated photo provided by family shows Army Spc. Francisco Gregorio Martinez. Martinez, 20, of Fort Worth, Texas, was killed March 20, 2005, in Tamin, Iraq, as a result of enemy small arms fire. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Hovey, Korea. (AP Photo/Family photo via The Dallas Morning News)

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** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** The bodies of two men lie on the ground after they, and a third man, were killed in clashes between insurgents and armed local residents in the Dora section of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 22, 2005. Iraqi Police were also involved in the firefight, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jalal Muther)

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Relatives grieve outside al-Yarmouk Hospital after gunman killed a man as he drove to work in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, March 22, 2005. Police officials identified the victim as an Iraqi Police officer.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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The bodies of three men are removed after they were killed in clashes between insurgents and armed local residents in the Dora section of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 22, 2005. Iraqi Police were also involved in the firefight, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jalal Muther)

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Former POW Jessica Lynch, right, is blessed by Navajo Indian, Eric Manuelito, during a memorial ceremony for Army Spc. Lori Piestewa, Tuesday, March 22, in Phoenix. Looking on at left, are Piestewa's mother, Percy, and Lori's daughter Carla.Two years after their company was ambushed, Lynch was in Arizona on Tuesday to honor her fallen comrade, Spc. Piestewa, the first American servicewoman killed in the war with Iraq. (AP Photo/Roy Dabner)

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Idaho National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Rik Williamson, left, along with Iraqi police officers, examine an RPG that had not been detonated, Sunday, March 20, 2005, but was found near a check point in Kirkuk, Iraq. Bravo Company Third platoon was on patrol in the area and got called to the scene. A chance encounter in Kirkuk on Sunday illustrated the tricky dual role of Idaho Army Guard members serving in Iraq, handling the jobs of both community-relations specialists and battle-ready soldiers. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Kim Hughes)

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U.S. Army 1st Squadron, 278th Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division soldiers, based in Athens, TN, look across the Iraq-Iran border at an Iranian border outpost from Mandali, Iraq, Monday, March 21, 2005. Pilgrims, smugglers, shepherds, even job hunters, often cross over from Iran into Iraq, but U.S.-led coalition forces and Iraqi border guards are focusing their attention on the so-called "socket," a section of the border that juts into Iran and is known as a major illegal immigration point. The area, with access to water, is preferred by many, including those helping Iraq's insurgency.(AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda)

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A convoy of U.S. Army Humvees from the 1st Squadron, 278th Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division, based in Athens, TN, stops along a road leading through the border hills that separate Iraq and Iran, looking for paths used by illegal immigrants traveling from Iran, Monday March 21, 2005. Pilgrims, smugglers, shepherds, even job hunters, often cross over from Iran into Iraq, but U.S.-led coalition forces and Iraqi border guards are focusing their attention on the so-called "socket," a section of the border that juts into Iran and is known as a major illegal immigration point. The area, flat and with access to water, is preferred by many, including those helping Iraq's insurgency. (AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda)

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Two men look at pictures of the Iraq war with a sign reading "Warning, a Bush Envoy is in Argentina" , in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, March 22, 2005 during the visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. (AP Photo/Daniel Luna) **EFE OUT**

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An Iraqi man looks at a damaged vehicle after militants targeted a U.S. patrol with a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, March 22, 2005, killing four nearby civilians. Witnesses said the bomb damaged a Humvee as it crossed a bridge, but it wasn't clear if U.S. troops suffered casualties.(AP Photo/Mohammed Ibrahim)

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In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, members of the 506th Expeditionary Medical Squadron carry an injured soldier from an Army Medevac Blackhawk to the emergency room at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, Sunday March 20, 2005. The 506th is the premier medical facility in Iraq providing superior medical care to over 3,300 Army and Air Force war fighters in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Matthew Lohr)

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U.S. and Iraqi soldiers gather around a crater left in front of an Iraqi Army base near Baqouba, Iraq, Monday, March 21, 2005, after a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Sunday night. Twelve Iraqi soldiers and two civilians were wounded in the blast, and four insurgents were killed in ensuing clashes.(AP Photo/Mohammed Adnan)

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U.S. Army Sgt. Sammy Matsaw of Twin Falls, Idaho, checks out a car on patrol in Kirkuk, Iraq Monday, March 21, 2005. Attacks across the country left seven civilians and three Iraqi soldiers dead Monday.(AP Photo/Sasa Kralj)

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An Iraqi man looks at wanted posters distributed by U.S. forces in Ramadi, Iraq, Monday, March 21, 2005. The poster at left offers a reward of U.S. $1 million for Abdel Baqi Abdel Karim Abdallah al-Sadun, former Baath Party regional command chairman, and the poster at right offers U.S. $25 million for terror leader Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Schultz of Clarksville, TN, of the 1st Squadron, 278th Regiment, based in Athens, TN, spray paints munitions to alert explosive disposal teams after they were turned in by an Iraqi villager near Mandali, Iraq, near the Iranian border, Monday March 14, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of rusty munitions, leftovers from the Iran-Iraq war, are scattered across the green fields and gentle hills of the two countries' common border. Long ignored, they are now being harvested by insurgents who recycle them into crude bombs and use them against U.S. and Iraqi troops.(AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda)

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Jesse Dinsdale, right, hugs a friend after speaking, about his experience fighting in Iraq, during a peace rally Sunday, March 20, 2005, at Lincoln Center in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Iowa State Daily, Shauna Stephenson)

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Dan Gustafson joins other protesters against the war in Iraq during a peaceful demonstration outside the federal courthouse in Reno, Nev., Sunday, March 20, 2005. (AP Photo/Debra Reid)

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Spc. Kevin Harrington, of Lewiston, Idaho, speaks with some children who wandered up to him Saturday, March 19, 2005, in Kirkuk, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Kim Hughes)