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24 November 2004

1,272 US Military Dead During Iraq War: http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm

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

DoD News Briefing
Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; and General Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - 2:30 p.m. EST

            SEC. RUMSFELD: As our country prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving, we will take time to remember the truly outstanding men and women in uniform who continue to bring the hope of freedom to millions around the world.  We thank them.  We thank their families and their loved ones.  And we will particularly remember the families and loved ones of those who have given their lives in service to our country and those in hospitals, whether in Germany or here in the Washington area or elsewhere around our country, who are recovering from their wounds.  They will all be in our thoughts and prayers.

            GEN. MYERS:  Let me just add on to what the secretary just said.  I want to express the condolences of all the joint chiefs of staff to those who have been killed or wounded, to their families, their loved ones, their friends, over this entire global war on terrorism.  As the secretary said, they're doing what they do so we can live in this country, our friends and allies can live in peace and freedom.  So we owe them a real debt of gratitude, and we will remember them, especially as this holiday season progresses.

Associated Press photos.

March 2003         59 Died
**RETRANSMISSION FOR IMPROVED QUALITY AND ALTERNATE CROP**Joan and Michael T. Curtin watch as a U.S. Army honor guard carries the casket of their son, U.S. Army Cpl. Michael Curtin, to the funeral service at the St. Anne's Cemetery in Wall Township, N.J., Friday, April 11, 2003. Curtin, 23, a member of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, was one of four GIs who died March 29 when a suicide bomber posing as a taxi driver detonated a car bomb near an Army checkpoint near Najaf, Iraq. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)	Family and friends gather at St. Joachim Church for a Rosary service Thursday, April 10, 2003, in Costa Mesa, Calif., the night before final farewells to Marine Cpl. Jose A. Garibay, Orange County's first casualty in the war with Iraq. Garibay, of Costa Mesa, was killed in combat March 23. He will be buried Friday at Riverside National Cemetery after funeral services at St. Joachim. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Rose Palmisano)
Family members enter the church behind the coffin of Lance Corporal Jose Antonio Gutierrez at the start of his funeral Monday, April 7, 2003 in Lomita, Calif.. Guitierrez was killed in combat March 21 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP PHOTO/LEE CELANO)	Engracia Sirina Gutierrez, center, sister of of Lance Cpl. Jose Antonio Gutierrez, fights back tears following his funeral Monday, April 7, 2003, in Lomita, Calif. At left is Gutierrez's foster mother, Nora Mosquera. Gutierrez was killed in combat March 21 during the Iraqi war. (AP Photo/Lee Celano)
U.S. Marine Capt. Kevin Hutchison, left, and Richard Brown, brother-in-law of 2nd Lt. Terrell Shane Childers, talk outside a funeral home Monday, March 31, 2003, in Powell, Wyo. Childers, a marine who died from gunshot wounds he sustained on March 21 in southern Iraq, will be buried in Powell on Tuesday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)	Lt.j.g. David Britton, center left, fights back tears during the funeral for his brother Christopher E. Britton at Mansfield Memorial Park, Mansfield, Ohio, Thursday, March 20, 2003. His parents Terry and Barbara Brittonsit at right. Christopher Britton was killed in a helicopter training accident at Ft. Drum, N.Y. March 11, 2003. (AP Photo/Mansfield News Journal, Dave Polcyn)
Members of the U.S. Army Fourth Battallion, 31st Infantry, 10th Mountain Division, salute the casket of U.S. Army Pfc. Tommy Chance Young during a memorial service at Highland South Memorial Park Funeral Home in Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday, March 19, 2003. The 20-year-old Knoxville native died March 11 when a Black Hawk helicopter he was aboard crashed in a remote part of Fort Drum, N.Y. The accident, which claimed 11 lives, is still under investigation. (AP Photo/News Sentinel, Jeff Adkins)	William Tracy Sr., lower right in front pew, rubs his face as family and friends gathered Wednesday, March 12, 2003, for the funeral services at the First Congregational Church of Webster in Webster, N.H. for his son Army specialist William Tracy Jr. who was one of four crew members killed when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Kuwaiti desert during a sandstorm on Feb. 25. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter, Pool)
Anutarapon Patchem, mother of Marine Cpl. Kemaphoom Chanawongse, of Waterford, Conn., receives the flag that draped the casket of Chanawongse during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Monday, April 28, 2003. Chanawongse was killed on March 23 during operations on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq. For the first time in memory, a Buddhist monk is presiding over an Arlington National Cemetery burial ceremony (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)	Buddhist monks look on as Anutarapon Patchem, mother of Marine Cpl. Kemaphoom Chanawongse, of Waterford, Conn., pauses over the casket during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Monday, April 28, 2003. Chanawongse was killed on March 23 during operations on the outskirts ofNasiriyah, Iraq. For the first time in memory, a Buddhist monk is presiding over an Arlington National Cemetery burial ceremony.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Buddhist Monks escort a Marine honor guard carrying the casket of Marine Cpl. Kemaphoom Chanawongse, of Waterford, Conn., during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Monday, April 28, 2003. Chanawongse was killed on March 23 during operations on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq. For the first time in memory, a Buddhist monk is presiding over an Arlington National Cemetery burial ceremony. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)	Retired Marine Master Sgt. Robert Williams, center, salutes the casket of Navy medic Michael Vann Johnson, Jr. during funeral services at Agape Church in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, April 16, 2003. Johnson, the lone Arkansan killed in the Iraq war, died March 25 while attending to wounded Marines in battle. Standing to the left is Corpsman Billy Sandoval who served with Johnson and gave a eulogy at the funeral.(AP Photo/Brian Chilson)
A United States Marine Corps color guard carry the casket of Corporal Brian Matthew Kennedy during funeral services at the First United Methodist Church Monday April 7, 2003 in San Diego. The 25-year-old Kennedy was killed in Iraq March 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Pool,Peggy Peattie )	Funeral Director David Heintzelman escorts Terri Seifert and her son Benjamin into Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pa., for funeral services for her husband Army Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert on Saturday April 5, 2003. Seifert was one of two officers killed in a March 23 attack at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. (AP Photo/The Express-Times, Bill Adams)
The casket of Army 1st Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy is carried into St. John Nepomucene Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland for his funeral mass Tuesday, April 15, 2003. Dowdy, a member of the 507th Maintenance Company was killed in Iraq at the start of the war. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)	Kristy Dowdy, left, and her mother, Kathleen, released pigeons as a final goodbye at the funeral of her father, Army 1st Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy at Holy Cross Cemetary in Brook Park, Ohio Tuesday, April 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)
Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Menusa's brother, Sgt. David Menusa, in uniform, comforts his parents, Virgina and Michael Kenny during a funeral service for the fallen soldier, Friday, April 11 2003, in Santa Maria, Calif. Joseph Menusa was killed in action in Iraq on March 27 according to U.S. military officials. Girl at right is unidentified. (AP Photo/Santa Barbara News-Press/Steve Malone)	Fernando Suarez del Solar, center, leads a group of pallbearers carrying the casket of his son Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesus Suarez del Solar into his funeral at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Escondido, Calif. Friday, April 11, 2003. Del Solar was killed in Iraq on March 27th. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Korthaus family members, father Steve Korthaus, left, mom Marilyn, center, and fiance, Barbi Schneckloth, watch as Marines remove the casket containing Sgt. Bradley Korthaus from the hearse, Monday, April 7, 2003, at Our Lady of Victory Church in Davenport, Iowa, during funeral services. Sgt. Korthaus drowned in the Saddam Canal in southeastern Iraq on March 25, 2003(AP Photo/Quad-City Times, John Schultz).	A U.S. Marine Corps color guard moves the casket containing the body of Marine Cpl. into the First United Methodist Church for funeral services Monday April 7, 2003 in San Diego. The 25-year-old Kennedy was killed March 21, 2003 during the first ground insertion mission in Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
Tony Nave, 6, son of U.S. Marine Maj. Kevin G. Nave, hugs a teddy bear after a funeral service, Saturday, April 5, 2003, at St. Patrick Church in White Lake, Mich. Nave, who was killed in action in Iraq on March 26, 2003, was the first serviceman from Michigan known to die in the war against Iraq. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Steve Perez)	** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 6 **FILE**Arlene Walters, seated partially obscured, mother of Army Sgt. Donald Walters, and Stacie Walters, his widow, center right, sit near his casket while honor guards fold a U.S. flag during funeral services in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., April 12, 2003. Walters, 33, a member of the 507th Maintenance Battalion, was killed following an ambush in Iraq on March 2003. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Crystalyn Hicks, widow of Air Force Staff Sgt. Jason Hicks of Valdosta, Ga., center rear, and others place flowers on his casket during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Hicks died last month during a helicopter rescue effort in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)	Patricia Roberts is comforted by an unidentified relative as she weeps in front of the flag-draped casket of her son Army Spc. Jamaal Rashard Addison after a funeral service in Conyers, Ga., Monday, April 7, 2003. Addison was killed in an ambush attack on the 507th Maintenance Company in central Iraq. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

April 2003           92 Died
Corey L. Stewart, a funeral director from the Westhaven Funeral Home in Jackson, Miss., center, directs an honor guard from Fort Polk, La., as they carry the body of Army Spc. Larry K. Brown, of Jackson, Miss., Saturday, April 19, 2003, following a funeral service in Jackson. Brown, 22, was a member of C Company, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment from Fort Riley, Kan. He was killed in Iraq on April 5. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)	Patty Steve, mother of slain U.S. Marine Brian Buesing, who was killed in action in Iraq, clings to a U.S. flag that was presented to her by the U.S. Marines during her sons funeral as her husband Roger, left, comforts her. The funeral was held Saturday, April 5, 2003 in Cedar Key, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)
A U.S. Army honor guard carries the flag-draped casket of Spc. Donald Oaks Jr. from the funeral service in downtown Erie, Pa., Tuesday, April 15, 2003. Oaks, who is from nearby Harborcreek, Pa., was one of three soldiers killed April 3 when a bomb dropped on a multilaunch rocket system in what military officials are investigating as a possible ``friendly fire'' incident. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)	Delores Gonzalez, mother of Marine Cpl. Armando Ariel Gonzalez, is escorted to the family car after her son's funeral in Hialeah, Fla., Tuesday, April 29, 2003. Friends and family gathered for the funeral of Gonzalez, who was killed when a refueling truck collapsed on him in Iraq earlier this month. (AP Photo/Hillery Smith Shay)
Ron Dash, left, escorts Eva Hemingway-Shannon after the funeral service for her son U.S. Army SSgt. Terry Hemingway at the Church of The Good Shepherd United Methodist in Willingboro, N.J. Monday, April 21, 2003. Hemingway was awarded the Purple Heart and the Order of the Purple Heart Distinguished Service Award during his funeral. Hemingway was killed April 10, 2003, in an apparent suicide attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)	From left to right, Eva and the Rev. Evine Shannon, mother and stepfather of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Terry Hemingway, mourn during funeral services for Terry Hemingway at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, N.J., Monday, April 21, 2003. Hemingway was killed April 10, when the vehicle next to his Bradley fighting vehicle in Baghdad exploded in an apparent suicide attack. (AP Photo/Camden Courier-Post, Carlos J. Ortiz)
Family members of U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Brian M. McPhillips, left to right, father David McPhillips, mother Julie, sister Carrie walk into Holy Family Church in Rockland, Mass., for Brian's funeral Wednesday, April 16, 2003, as a U.S. Marine officers salute. McPhillips, 25, of Pembroke, Mass., who was killed April 4, 2003, as coalition forces advanced on Baghdad. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)	Family members of U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Brian M. McPhillips, left to right, father David McPhillips, mother Julie, sister Carrie and funeral director William Quealy follow Brian McPhillips' flag draped casket out of Holy Family Church in Rockland, Mass., Wednesday, April 16, 2003, as a U.S. Marine officer salutes. McPhillips, 25, of Pembroke, Mass., who was killed April 4, 2003, as coalition forces advanced on Baghdad. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
Taylor Contreras the youngest son of U.S. Marine Capt. Aaron Contreras stands in front of a picutre of his father during funeral services Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Sherwood, Ore. Contreras who was killed in action in Iraq (AP Photo/John Klicker)	A Marine honor guard carries the casket of Lance Cpl. Brian E. Anderson, Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at the Beechwood Cemetery, in Durham, N.C., during funeral services for the Camp Lejeune Marine. Anderson was killed in Iraq on April 2. (AP Phfoto/Bob Jordan)
The family of Marine PFC Francisco Martinez Flores embrace as they greave for the 21-year-old during his funeral Mass Saturday, April, 12, 2003 in Monrovia, Calif. His mother, Martha Martinez Flores embraces her husband Samuel, left and her youngest son, Sammy. The Marine was killed when his tank tumbled from a collapsing bridge in Iraq was remembered Saturday as a man who loved two countries the United States and Mexico and died to liberate a third. Hundreds of mourners packed Immaculate Conception Church and others overflowed outside during the funeral Mass for Martinez Flores, 21, who died just two weeks before he was to become a U.S. citizen.(AP Photo/Virgina Lee Hunter)	The casket carrying the body of Marine Lance Cpl. Brian E. Anderson is taken from the Mt. Calvary United Church of Christ, Tuesday, April 15, 2003, in Durham, N.C., after funeral services for the Camp Lejeune Marine. Anderson was killed in Iraq on April 2. (AP Phfoto/Bob Jordan)
Members of the First Armored Division of Fort Riley, Kan., walk single file into the back entrance of the First Baptist Church in Wellsville, Kan., before the funeral for Sgt. Jacob Lee Butler, Monday, April 14, 2003. Butler was killed April 1 (AP Photo/The Olathe News, Jay Soldner)	Charlene Stroud, center, is comforted by Brig. Gen. Mastin Robeson, right, after he presented her the American flag from the casket of her son, Lance Cpl. Brian E. Anderson after funeral services Tuesday, April 15, 2003, in Durham, N.C. Anderson was killed in Iraq on April 2. At left is Stroud's husband James.(AP Phfoto/Bob Jordan)
Parents of Spc. Ryan P. Long, Army Maj. Ret. Rudolf Long, second from left, and his wife Donna Long leave the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church after funeral services for their son Spc. Ryan P. Long, Saturday, April 12, 2003, in Seaford, Del. At right is Army Sgt. 1st Class John Isenhour casualty assistant for Spc. Ryan P. Long. Person at left is unidentified. Long, 21, and two other soldiers were killed April 3 when a car exploded at a checkpoint northwest of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Todd Dudek)	U.S. Marines carry the casket of Cpl Jose Angel Garibay, killed in the war in Iraq, at his funeral Friday, April 11, 2003, at the St. Joaquim Catholic Church in Costa Mesa, Calif. (AP Photo/Rose Palmisano)
Amaryllis Hernandez, second from right, the mother of U.S. Marine Cpl. Robert Marcus Rodriguez, is aided with smelling salts at the funeral of her son at the Blessed Sacrament Memorial Church in Brooklyn Friday April 11, 2003. Cpl. Rodriguez was remembered Friday as a "son of New York" who died in Iraq . (AP Photo/Radcliffe Roye)	Patty Steve, center, mother of slain U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Brian Buesing, is presented with the U.S. Flag by a member of the U.S. Marine Corps as her husband Roger, left, sits by her side during funeral services Saturday, April 5, 2003, at Cedar Key, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)
** FILE ** Sgt. 1st class James MacKenzie plays "Taps" during the funeral of Army Ranger Capt. Russell B. Rippetoe at Arlington National Cemetery April 10, 2003. Rippetoe, 27, an Army Ranger from Arvada, Colo., was the first soldier from the Iraqi conflict to be laid to rest at Arlinton National Cemetery. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak/File)	A Marine honor guard carries the body of Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Aviles past a poster showing Andrew's smiling face after funeral services Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Tampa, Fla. Aviles was killed April 7, during combat in Iraq. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
An unidenified U.S. Marine, left, plays "Taps" as mourners listen and pray during the funeral of U.S. Marine Cpl. Armando Ariel Gonzalez, 25, of Hialeah, Fla., Tuesday, April 29, 2003 in Hialeah. Gonzalez was killed when a refueling truck collapsed on him in Iraq earlier this month. Gonzalez, 25, made Hialeah his home after he fled his native Cuba for the United States in 1995. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)	The remains of Marine Cpl. Armando Ariel Gonzalez is carried out of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Hialeah, Fla., Tuesday, April 29, 2003. Friends and family gathered for the funeral of Gonzalez, who was killed when a refueling truck collapsed on him in Iraq earlier this month. (AP Photo/Hillery Smith Shay)
The family of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid, sitting from left, parents Dan and Nancy and brothers Kevin and Adam, attend funeral services at the Malden Grade School in Malden, Ill. on Saturday, April 26, 2003. Hollinsaid, a soldier in the 11th Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division was killed April 7 in Iraq when a rocket propelled grenade struck the crane he was operating. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)	A U.S. Army honor guard carries the casket of Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid after funeral services at the Malden Grade School in Malden, Ill. on Saturday, April 26, 2003. Hollinsaid, a soldier in the 11th Engineer Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division was killed in Iraq when a rocket propelled grenade struck the crane he was operating. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)
Paulette Foley accepts a U.S. flag from Lt. Gen Dennis Cavin while taps played at the funeral of her husband, Army Spc.Thomas A. Foley III in Martin, Tenn., Friday, April 25, 2003. Foley, 23, and Pfc. John E. Brown of Troy, Ala., died April 14 when the military says a grenade accidentally exploded in their vehicle at a checkpoint south of Baghdad. (AP Photo/The Jackson Sun, Stephan Frazier)	Danielle Harris, 3, cousin of Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott D. Sather, from Clio, Michigan, covers her ears during the firing party's three round volley at Sather's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington Friday, April 25, 2003. Sather, a combat controller with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, was the Air Force's first combat casualty when he was killed in action in Iraq April 8. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Air Force Lt. Gen Paul V. Hester, left, presents the flag to Melanie Sather, right, wife of Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott D. Sather, from Clio, Michigan, during his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington Friday, April 25, 2003. Sather, a combat controller with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, was the Air Force's first combat casualty when he was killed in action in Iraq April 8. Woman at far right is Karin Craft, Staff Sgt. Sather's mother. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)	Three-year-old Danielle Harris, in blue dress at right, cousin of Air Force Staff Sgt. Scott D. Sather, continues to cover her ears after the firing party fired three volleys of seven during Sather's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington Friday, April 25, 2003. Sather, from Clio, Michigan,was a combat controller with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron at Pope Air Force Base and the Air Force's first combat casualty when he was killed in action in Iraq April 8. Others unidentified.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Final tribute is paid to Army Capt. James Adamouski, of Springfield, Va., during a funeral ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery Thursday, April 24, 2003, in Arlington, Va. Adamouski died following the crash of his Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq. (AP Photos/Lisa Nipp)	Oregon's Gov. Ted Kulongoski hands a folded Oregon flag to Cyndi Stever, wife of Tony Stever, during his funeral Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at Skyview Memorial Cemetery in Pendleton, Ore. Stever was killed April eighth in an ambush near the airport in Baghdad. (AP Photo/East Oregonian, Don Cresswell)
Lori Bohr, left, stands with her father-in-law Edward Bohr, center, following funeral services for her husband Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeffrey Bohr, Wednesday, April 23, 2003, in Ossian, Iowa. Bohr died April 10 from two gunshot wounds suffered in a seven-hour battle with pro-Saddam Hussein forces at the Imam Mosque northwest of Baghdad's city center. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)	Edward Bohr, left, gets hug as he walks in to the St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church for the funeral of his son Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeffrey Bohr, Wednesday April 23, 2003, in Ossian, Iowa. Bohr's widow, Lori, second from left, looks on. Bohr died April 10 from two gunshot wounds suffered in a seven-hour battle with pro-Saddam Hussein forces at the Imam Mosque northwest of Baghdad's city center. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Army Brig. Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt, left, presents the United States flag that drapped the casket of Army Capt. Tristan Aitken of State College, Pa. to his widow Maria Forey-Aitken during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Aitken was killed April 4 during an attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)	Family members of Army Pfc. Jason M. Meyer, of Howell, Mich. embrace each other at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Monday, April 21, 2003 during funeral services for Meyer who was killed April 7 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
An image of U.S. Army Sgt. Stevon Booker is projected on a wall as his flag draped casket sits in the front of the church for his funeral services in Apollo, Pa. on Wednesday, April 16, 2003. Booker died on April 5 after sustaining injuries during combat in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)	The parents of Army Pfc. Jason M. Meyer react near the casket of their son at during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. on Monday, April 21, 2003. Meyer was killed April 7 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Family members of Army Pfc. Jason M. Meyer pause at his casket during funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Monday, April 21, 2003. Meyer, 23, of Howell, Mich. was killed April 7 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)	Relatives pause on the steps of St. Elizabeth's Roman Cathlic Church in the Washington Heights section of New York to honor Riayan A. Tejeda, a U.S. Marine killed in the conflict in Iraq, at the conclusion of a funeral Mass for the slain Marine, Monday, April 21, 2003. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Riayan A. Tejeda's brothers Andres, third from left, and Angel, center, (looking up) mourn his death with Tejeda's mother Rafaella Tejeda, second from right, and his father Julio Cesar Tejeda, far right, during a funeral mass Monday, April 21, 2003, in the Washington Heights section of New York. Tejeda, a Dominican citizen and a staff sergeant with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, was killed April 11 during combat operations against enemy forces in northeast Baghdad, the Pentagon has said. He was based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)	Marines and soldiers salute as the flag-draped body of Riayan A. Tejeda, a U.S. Marine killed in in Iraq, is placed inside a hearse at the conclusion of a funeral mass for the slain Marine, Monday, April 21, 2003, in the Washington Heights section of New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
U.S. Army pallbearers carry the casket of Army Staff Sgt. Terry Hemingway for burial at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, N.J., Monday, April 21, 2003. Hemingway was awarded the the Purple Heart and the Order of the Purple Heart Distinguished Service Award during his funeral at The Church of the Good Shepherd in Willingboro, N.J. Hemingway was killed April 10, 2003, in an apparent suicide attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)	Venetia, Terry William and Danisha Hemingway, from left, lay flowers on their father U.S. Army SSgt. Terry Hemingway's casket while their mother Darlene, second from right, watches at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, N.J. Monday, April 21, 2003. Hemingway was awarded the Purple Heart and the Order of the Purple Heart Distinguished Service award during his funeral at The Church of the Good Shepherd United Methodist in Willingboro, N.J. Hemingway was killed April 10, 2003, in an apparent suicide attack in Iraq. Barbara Hawk, a family friend stands at right. (AP Photo/Brian Branch-Price)
Marine Lance Cpl. Josh Tucker pauses next to the casket of his friend, Marine Lance Cpl. Donald John Cline, during funeral services Saturday, April 19, 2003, in Sparks, Nev. Cline, 21, was killed in action in southern Iraq on March 23. Cline's dog tag hangs from the casket at left. (AP Photo/Debra Reid, Pool)	Tina Cline, right, accepts a U.S. flag during the funeral for her husband, Marine Lance Cpl. Donald John Cline, Saturday, April 19, 2003, during services in Sparks, Nev. Cpl. Cline died in combat in Iraq on March 23. At left is Tina Cline's stepfather, Steve Sweringen. (AP Photo/Debra Reid, Pool)
Erica Rios, the widow of United States Marine Sgt. Duane Rios grasps the flag which was draped on his coffin at his funeral Saturday, April 19, 2003 in Griffith, Ind. Rios, 25, was killed April 5 in a battle on the outskirts of Baghdad. His remains were to be cremated after the ceremony. (AP Photo/Michael Gard)	Nicholas Brown, younger brother of Army Spc. Larry K. Brown, of Jackson, Miss., takes a private moment Saturday, April 19, 2003, during his brother's funeral service in Jackson, to say goodbye. Brown, 22, was a member of C Company, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment from Fort Riley, Kan. He was killed in Iraq, April 5. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)
Rev. Nate Elarton of the Bedford Christian Community Church Assembly of God in Temperance, Mich., offers his condolences as he greets Marine Pfc. Juan Garza Jr.'s family members, including his grandmother Carmen Garza, left, and his father Juan Garza, Sr., before funeral services Friday, April 18, 2003. More than 30 members of the Garza family traveled from San Benito, Texas, to attend the service, which included full military honors for Pfc. Garza, killed this month Iraq. (AP Photo/Monroe Evening News, Kim Brent)	Dorothy Halvorsen, second from right, mother of Army helicopter pilot Erik Halvorsen who died in Iraq, is escorted from the Second Congregtional Church in Bennington, Vt., by Ret. Navy Capt. Robert Weeks after her son's funeral, Thursday, April 17, 2003. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)
Shelby Smith, 8, left, and her brother, Nathan, 12, watch as the casket of their father, U.S. Marine 1st Sgt. Edward C. Smith, is brought into the chapel at Camp Pendleton, Calif., for funeral services Thursday, April 17, 2003. Edward Smith died on April 5 from wounds suffered during combat in central Iraq. He was the highest-ranking enlisted Marine to die in the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, Pool)	Sandra Smith, wife of slain U.S. Marine 1st Sgt. Edward C. Smith, wipes her tears as her oldest son, Nathan, 12, rests his head on her shoulder during funeral services Thursday, April 17, 2003, at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Smith, a Gulf War veteran and reserve officer with the Anaheim Police Dept., who hoped to join the police force full-time upon his return from duty in Iraq, died on April 5 from wounds suffered during combat in central Iraq. He was the highest-ranking enlisted Marine to die in the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, Pool)
Heather Strange, fiancee of Marine Lance Cpl. Mike Williams, cries over his casket during his funeral service at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, Thursday, April 17, 2003, in Phoenix. Williams, 31, a 60mm mortar forward observer with the 2nd Expeditionary Brigade from Camp Lejeune, N.C., was killed in Iraq during fighting near Nasiriyah last month. (AP Photo/Pat Shannahan, Pool)	Sandy Watson, left, mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Michael J. Williams, and Williams' fiance, Heather Strange, mourn during a funeral service for Williams at the National Memorial Cemetery in north Phoenix. Williams, 31, died on March 23 while his unit attempted to secure a bridgehead southeast of Nasiriyah. (AP Photo/Cheryl Evans, Pool)
Gen. Jason Kamiya, post commander from Fort Polk, La., presents the U.S. flag to Latricia Bellard, wife of Pvt. Wilfred Bellard, as his mother, Janet Brooks, sits next to her at the conclusion of funeral services at Combre Memorial Park Cemetery Thursday, April 17, 2003, in Lake Charles, La. Wilfred Bellard died in Iraq on April 4. (AP Photo/American Press, Brad Puckett)	The coffin holding the body of Erik Hernandez Silva, who died while fighting with the U.S. Marines in Iraq, is reflected in Javier Silva's sunglasses, his father, during the funeral for Erik at the Holtville Cemetery in Holtville, Calif., Wednesday, April 16, 2003. (AP Photo/Imperial Valley Press, Kevin Marty)
Gustavo Padilla-Ramirez looks up during the funeral for his brother, Sgt. Fernando Padilla-Ramirez, Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at St. Jude Catholic Church in San Luis, Ariz. Ramirez, 26, died conducting convoy operations near Nasiriyah. He disappeared on March 28 and was declared dead on April 10. (AP Photo/The Sun, Alfred J. Hernandez)	People give their condolences to Lorenza Padilla-Ramirez, the mother of Marine Sgt. Fernando Padilla-Ramirez, during funeral services for Fernando at St. Jude Catholic Church in San Luis, Ariz., Wednesday, April 16, 2003. Sgt Ramirez, serving in the war with Iraq, was reported as missing in action on March 28, and the family was notified of his death on April 10. Sgt. Padilla was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. (AP Photo/The Sun, Alfred J. Hernandez)
Lance Hale, right, hugs his mother Annette Hale, Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at the funeral of his brother U.S. Army Capt. Edward Korn in the Whitefield Chapel at the Bethesda Home for Boys in Savannah, Ga. Korn's father Richard Korn, seated to the left, looks on. Korn, an alumnus of the home, was killed April 3 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)	Gloria Silva, the mother of Erik H. Silva, kisses her son's coffin during his funeral at the Holtville, Calif., cemetery Wednesday, April 16, 2003. Erik H. Silva, 23, died in combat April 3 in Iraq. (AP Photo/Imperial Valley Press, Kevin Marty).
Aidan Contreras, 11, plays his saxophone during the funeral service for his father U.S. Marine Capt. Aaron Contreras, Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Sherwood, Ore. Contreras was killed in action in Iraq. (AP Photo/John Klicker)	Kristy Dowdy, left, and her mother, Kathleen, embrace behind the casket of her father, Army 1st Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy at Holy Cross Cemetary in Brook Park, Ohio Tuesday, April 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)