PHOTOS...a DU Memorial, because so few notice "bush* wars" anymore....

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Comrades of the four Iraqi soldiers killed by a booby-trapped motorcycle drive away their coffins from Basra hospital. The attack took place behind the general hospital in the Hay al-Rissala neighborhood.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)




A U.S. Marine honor guard lifts the flag from the casket of U.S. Marine Cpl. Timothy Gibson on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005 at his funeral in the Last Rest Cemetery in Merrimack, N.H. Cpl. Gibson, who was 23, was killed in a helecopter crash in western Iraq (news - web sites) on Jan. 26 killing 30 Marines and one Navy medic. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe)




Elaine Gibson, center, accepts a U.S. flag from U.S. Marine Capt. Kevin Garbe, left, at the funeral of her son, Cpl. Timothy Gibson, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005, in Merrimack, N.H.. Beside Elaine Gibson are Cpl. Gibson's father Thomas Gibson, second from left, and brother U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Patrick Gibson at right. Cpl. Gibson was on a transport helicopter that crashed in western Iraq (news - web sites) last month, killing 30 Marines and one Navy medic. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe)




Iraqi women mourn the death of their relative who was one of four soldiers who were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the southern city of Basra, February 5, 2005. A roadside bomb blast killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded three in the southern city of Basra on Saturday, Iraqi officers said. British forces sealed off the site after the blast. REUTERS/Atef Hassan




Lance Cpl. Richard Chad Clifton, 19, of Milton Del., shown in this undated photo released by his family, was killed Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005, in Anbar province in western Iraq (news - web sites). Clifton, a member of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, was stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., before being deployed to Iraq. He was scheduled to return home next month. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the family)




Staff Sgt. Michael Switzer, 26, from Walker, Louisiana, touches the dog tags of a fallen comrade during a memorial service held at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad, on Friday, Feb. 4, 2005. Three soldiers from the 1088th Engineer Battalion, part of the Louisiana National Guards 256th Brigade Combat Team, were killed Jan. 28 when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb during a security patrol. The soldiers, Staff Sgt. Jonathan Reed, Sgt. Christopher Ramsey and Sgt. Michael Evans, were part of a massive operation to provide security during Iraqs first democratic elections in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson)




A photo of fallen sailor, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John D. House of Ventura, Calif., is shown on a screen during a memorial service held in his honor at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. House was among those killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq (news - web sites) last week. House, who was stationed at Pearl Harbor, was scheduled to return to the United States in February. House was serving in Iraq when his son was born on Christmas Eve. The 28-year-old Navy medic never got to meet his son face-to-face. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)




Melanie House, widow of Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John D. House of Ventura, Calif., holds the couple's infant son, James, during a memorial service at Pearl Harbor, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. Never able to see his son, House was one of the Hawaii-based servicemen killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)




Memeber of a Marine honor guard fold the U.S. flag which had covered the casket of Marine Lance Cpl. Tony Hernandez, Thursday, Feb, 3, 2005, during burial services near Spring Branch, Texas. Jeanette Trout, in black hood, mother of the deceased, looks on.. Hernandez was killed in a helicopter crash Jan. 26 in Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel)




A video image shows covered bodies laying in the back of a truck outside the hospital in the northern oil city of Kirkuk after militants ambushed and killed 12 Iraqi soldiers, the army said, February 3, 2005. Photo by Reuters Tv/Reuters security forces since last weekend's historic election, the Iraqi army said on Thursday. Two soldiers survived and fled to a nearby village after their bus was ambushed near the northern oil city of Kirkuk late on Wednesday.




Jennifer McCollum, center, whose husband Marine Capt. Dan McCollum was killed in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002, testifies during a hearing on military death benefits before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. At left is Tiffany Petty, of Inkom, Idaho, whose husband Army Pfc. Jerrick Petty was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, and at right is Bonnie Carrol, chairman of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)




Edith Smith, legislative committee member for Gold Star Wives of America, cries as she listens to testimony of fellow witnesses who are widows of servicemen from Operation Iraqi Freedom, during a hearing on military death benefits before the Senate Veterans Affairs committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. Behind her is Kathleen Moakler of the National Military Families Association. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)




A man cries as he receives the flag draped bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed in the northern city of Kirkuk. Insurgents killed 12 Iraqi soldiers near the oil-rich city as they were traveling back from guarding oil pipelines.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)