Toll in Iraq War a Grim Milestone - AP

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Toll in Iraq War a Grim Milestone

By Sharon Cohen and Pauline Arrillaga The Associated Press

Published: Sep 7, 2004


Their faces, smiling or solemn, are all too familiar in our newspapers and on television. Their names sound a somber roll call - Smith, Falaniko, Ramos, Lee - a roster that seems to grow daily.

U.S. military deaths'in the Iraq campaign passed 1,000 on Tuesday.

Thg troops lost are sons and daughters from city streets and rural hamlets. They are teens who went from senior proms to boot camp and battle, and middle-aged family men who put aside retirement and grandchildren for the dangers of a war zone.

What they share is they will not see home again.


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