Daily U.S. Casualties 9/19/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 9/19/2004


As of Friday, 1,027 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 777 died as a result of hostile action and 250 died of nonhostile causes. The figures include three military civilians. The department did not provide an update Saturday.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 889 U.S. military members have died -- 668 as a result of hostile action and 221 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers Friday.

The latest deaths reported by the military:


Two U.S. soldiers were killed by a car bomb Saturday in Baghdad.


The latest identifications reported by the military:


Marine 1st Lt. Andrew K. Stern, 24, Germantown, Tenn.; died Thursday from injuries received in action in Anbar province; assigned to

1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.


Marine Cpl. Steven A. Rintamaki, 21, Lynnwood, Wash.; died Thursday in action in Anbar province; assigned to 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

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September has been a bad month.

Sid