So, I'm catching up on my milblogs...and then other milblogs I get led to....see The Sandbox widget to the left. At some point I realize woefully that I don't know what the current Death Toll is for Iraq and Afghanistan. That fries my bacon something fierce. Why don't the newscasts end with the death toll? Probably the same reason we don't see flag draped coffins. If we were subject to the number everyday I bet people would have more of a fire lit under their butts to get this thing done.
Ya know it pisses me off that people probably don't know this information. Also, I'm frustrated that I have to hunt down the numbers. Trying to get to the Washington Post Site so I can link to their "Faces of the Fallen" Project.
4183 in Iraq
612 in Afghanistan*
An even more painful thought is those veterans who have taken their own life because they didn't have the help/support/whatever they needed.
I pray for them all.
*from here
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