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25 November 2004

1,274 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.

December 2003               49 Died
Air Force Staff Sgt. Carissa Walkup, center, widow of Air Force Staff Sgt. Thomas A. Walkup Jr., of Millville, N.J., grieve along with his mother Patricia, obscured, and father Thomas Sr., second left, during his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003 outside Washington. Walkup Jr., a flight engineer, was killed when his Air Force special operations helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on Nov. 23. Woman rear left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)	** CORRECTS LOCATION TO NORTHOME, MINN. ** Gov. Tim Pawlenty pays his respects to Staff Sgt. Dale Panchot during a funeral at the Northome School, Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, in Northome, Minn. Pawlenty was among the speakers at the military funeral. Panchot died Nov. 17, 2003, in the city of Balad, north of Baghdad, when the Bradley Fighting Vehicle on which he was squad leader was attacked. (AP Photo/Bemidji Pioneer, Molly Miron)
Shirley Bates, grandmother of Ohio National Guardsman Todd Bates who died in Iraq while trying to save a fellow guardsman, waits outside of the Bauknecht-Altmeyer Funeral Home in Bellaire, Ohio, late Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003, for the arrival of Bates' body. Bates died after he dove into the Tigris River in Iraq in an attempt to save the another soldier on Dec. 10. Services for Bates will be held Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004, in Bellaire. (AP Photo/Michael Harvilla, Times Leader)	** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, JAN. 3-4 **Navy reservists Petty officer 2nd Class Carlos Vega presents the U.S. Flag to Ryan Lewis during the funeral service of his father, Navy veteran Ernest Lewis, at Fort Sam Houston Natioal Cemetery in San Antonio, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003. Vega has been recalled since April 2001. Before accepting funeral duty, he was a maintenance man at a San Antonio apartment complex.(AP Photot/Eric Gay)
The Rev. Wylie Brewster cries after leading funeral services for his cousin, Army Sgt. Marshall Edgerton, in Dalton, Ga., Tuesday Dec. 23, 2003. Edgerton was killed in a suicide bomb attack Dec. 11, 2003, west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Matt Hamilton)	Soldiers carry the casket of Staff Sgt. Aaron Reese, 31, at his funeral in Lima, Ohio, Monday, Dec. 22, 2003. Reese, the first member of the Ohio National Guard to die in Iraq, died less than a month before he was due to return home with the gu
Jane Black, left, and William Black, parents of Army Sgt. Jarrod W. Black, hug a friend outside the Main Street United Methodist Church Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003, in Peru, Ind., after funeral services. Sgt. Black, a member of the Army's 1st Battalion of the 34th Armored Division, was killed Dec. 12 when a bomb exploded near his unit's convoy traveling west of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Indianapolis Star, Rob Goebel)	Members of the Souslin family, right, bow their heads at the funeral of U.S. Army Pfc. Kenneth C. Souslin Monday, Dec. 22, 2003, at Lexington Cemetery in Mansfield, Ohio. Souslin, 21, died of non-combat injuries at Baghdad International Airport last week in Iraq. Shown from center to right are brothers of the deceased Bryant and Robert, and Souslin's parents Kenneth and Cecilia. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
An honor guard carries the casket of Army Pfc. Jerrick Petty from the Idaho National Guard Armory in Pocatello, Idaho, following a funeral ceremony Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003. The 25-year-old soldier of Idaho Falls, was killed Dec. 10 by hostile fire while guarding a gas station in Mosul, Iraq. Petty joined the Army about six months ago to earn more money to support his young family. He was stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP Photo/Idaho State Journal, Joshua Duplechian)	The casket of Army Spc. Arron R. Clark of Chico, Calif., is moved Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003, from Neighborhood Church to a hearse after a funeral service in Chico, Calif. At right center in the rear is Clark's mother, Lynn Clark. Clark was killed by a remote-control bomb in Iraq. (AP Photo/Chico Enterprise-Record, Ty Barbour)
Mourners watch a photo display flash on a screen depicting the life of Iowa Army National Guard Sgt. Aaron Sissel during the funeral service at the Tipton Middle School, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003, in Tipton, Iowa. Sissel, a member of the Iowa Army National Guard and a 1999 graduate of Tipton High School, was in a military cargo truck when his convoy was attacked on Nov. 29, not far from Iraq's border with Syria. The U.S. Army posthumously promoted him from the rank of specialist to sergeant. (AP Photo/The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Jim Slosiarek)	Pallbearers remove the casket of Iowa National Guard Sgt. Aaron Sissel, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003, from the Tipton (Iowa) Middle school where more than 1,000 people attended his funeral. The 22-year-old is the fourth Iowa National Guardsman to die in Iraq and the ninth Iowan overall. A member of the Iowa Army National Guard and a 1999 graduate of Tipton High School, Sissel was in a military cargo truck when his convoy was attacked on Nov. 29, not far from Iraq's border with Syria. (AP Photo/Quad-City Times, John Schultz)
An unidentified relative offers prayer at the funeral pyre of U.S. Army Sgt. Uday Singh in Chandigarh, India, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003. Singh was the first Indian killed in the Iraq conflict on Dec. 1, when his convoy was ambushed in Habbaniyah, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Baghdad. Also seen in background are U.S. Army Sgt. Richard Allan, top left, and Sgt. Jeffrey Smith, top center. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)	An unidentified relative consoles Manjit Kaur, left, mother of U.S. Army Sgt. Uday Singh, at Singh's funeral in Chandigarh, India, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003. Singh was the first Indian killed in the Iraq conflict on Dec. 1, when his convoy was ambushed in Habbaniyah, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Baghdad. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
** FOR USE WITH YEAD-END STORIES **Jill Kiehl holds her 6-month-old son, Nathaniel, as they sit below the flag she was presented at her husband's funeral, in her Des Moines, Iowa, home Dec. 2, 2003. Keihl's husband, Army Spc. James Kiehl, was killed in Iraq seven weeks before Nathaniel was born. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)	Military pallbearers carry the casket of Sg. Maj. Philip Albert from St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in Bristol, Conn., Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2003, after his funeral. Albert, 41, was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Nov. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Bob child)
Jill Roberts is escorted to the graveside of her husband Cpl. Robert D. Roberts at Chapel Hill Cemetery in Oviedo, Fla., Friday, Dec. 5, 2003. Roberts, 21, of Winter Park, was killed in Baghdad on Nov. 22 in a tank collision. At the funeral, his wife, Jill, accepted the Bronze Star for his heroic and meritorious service against an armed enemy in Iraq. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Bobby Coker)	** ADDS MOTHER'S NAME ** Victoria Baker, mother of Army Spc. Ryan Baker, gets a flag at her sons funeral Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2003, at Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle Memorial Veterans Cemetery in Arneytown, N.J. Baker, 24, was killed Nov. 15 in the crash of two Black Hawk helicopters over Mosul in Iraq. (AP Photo/Courier Post, Paris L. Gray)
Charlie Taylor, left, of Atlanta, helps his aunt, Daisy Wilson, center, the mother of Command Sgt. Maj. Jerry L. Wilson, out of the car as they are joined by Wilson's son, Mantrell Wilson, right, wearing glasses, as the family arrives to for Wilson's funeral services at Springfield Baptist Church in Thomson, Ga., Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003. Wilson, 45, and another soldier were killed Nov. 23 when their vehicle was attacked in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle,Andrew Davis Tucker)	Pallbearers from the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army carry Command Sgt. Maj. Jerry L. Wilson's casket after his funeral at Springfield Baptist Church in Thomson, Ga., Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2003. Wilson, 45, and another soldier - Spec. Rel A. Ravago IV, 21, of Glendale, Calif. - were killed Nov. 23 when their vehicle was attacked in Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle, Andrew Davis Tucker)
January 2004               43 Died
Shenecka Coakley, right, the fiance to U.S. Army Sgt. Edmond Randle Jr., and a family member, left, grieve over the casket containing Randle's remains at funeral services in Miami Lakes, Fla., Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004. Randle was killed Jan. 17th north of Baghdad when the vehicle he was in was destroyed by a roadside bomb. (AP Photo/Yesikka Vivancos)	Mourners for U.S. Army Spc. Gabriel T Palacios, 22, cry during his funeral at his home in Mateares, Nicaragua, 30 miles west of Managua Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004. Palacios who also lived in Lynn, Mass. was killed Jan. 21, 2004 in a mortar attack on a base near Baqoubah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Mario Lopez)
The casket of Army Staff Sgt. Roland Castro is carried from St. Patrick's church in San Antonio after a funeral Mass, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004. Castro, a posthumous recipient of the Bronze Star, died Jan. 16 of a non-hostile gunshot wound at Camp Cedar II in Iraq. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Billy Calzada)	Helen Therrien of Jay, Vt., mother of slain U.S. Army Specialist Solomon Bangayan, receives medals and a citation from U.S. Army Brig. Gen. John McDonald, after Bangayan's funeral ceremony Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004 in Sudipen, in the northen Philippine province of La Union. Bangayan of the 2nd Battallion, 325 Airborne Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division received posthumously the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart medals. (AP Photo/Vic Alhambra Jr.)
Army major general Kenneth L. Farmer presents a flag to Brice Manuel, left, and Louise Manuel, 2nd from left, the father and stepmother of Army chief warrant officer Ian D. Manuel, during his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Friday, January 23, 2004. Also visible seated are Jill Heyden, right, Ian's fiance, and J.R. Derrow, the husband of Ian's mother Tita Derrow, not visible. Manuel died in a helicopter crash near Fallujah, Iraq Jan. 8, 2004. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)	The next of kin of five servicemen who were killed in Afghanistan on Nov. 23, 2003 mourn at their graveside after they were presented flags at their joint funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004. Left to right are Air Force Stf. Sgt. Carissa Walkup, wife of Stf. Sgt. Thomas A. Walkup, Jr, 25, of Millville, N.J., Melissa Walters, wife of Tech. Sgt. Howard A. Walters, 33, of Port Huron, Mich., and Kara Kerwood, wife of Tech. Sgt. William Kerwood, 37, of Houston, Mo. Also buried with them were Air Force Maj. Steven Plumhoff, 33, of Neshanic Station, N.J and Army Sgt. Maj. Phillip R. Albert, 44, of Terryville, Conn. They were killed when their helicopter went down in support of operation Enduring Freedom, and their remains were buried together. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Cherish Piche looks at the flag from her husband's funeral, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, at her home in Fort Campbell, Ky. Her husband, Capt. Pierre Piche, was one of 17 101st Airborne Division soldiers killed Nov. 15, 2003, when two helicopters collided in Mosul, Iraq, apparenlty due to enemy fire. When the rest of the soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division come home by the planeload in upcoming days, reality will set in for Cherish Piche when she can not embrace her husband at the Fort Campbell airfield. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)	** CORRECTS DATE OF DEATH ** Jim Mizener, father of Pfc. Jesse D. Mizener, comforts his wife, Becky Mizener, left, and Jesse's widow, Nicole Mizener, at the funeral for his son Friday, Jan. 16, 2004, at Cherokee Memorial Park in Lodi, Calif. Pfc. Mizener died Jan. 7 when a mortar round hit a Baghdad-area logistics base, officials said. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Brian Baer)
Dennis, left, and Patti Frist, right, receive comfort from a friend before funeral services for their son Spc. Luke Frist Monday, Jan. 12, 2004, at Tri-County High School near Wolcott, Ind. Frist, a soldier from the Lafayette-based 209th Quartermaster Company, died last Monday as a result of wounds sustained in a attack in Iraq on January 2. (AP Photo/Journal and Courier, Michael Heinz)	Patti and Dennis Frist comfort their daughters Erin, left, and Johanna at the start of funeral services for their son and brother Army Spc. Luke Frist, Monday, Jan.12, 2004 at Tri-County High School near Wolcott, Ind. Frist, a soldier from the Lafayette-based 209th Quartermaster Company, died last Monday as a result of wounds sustained in an attack in Iraq on Jan. 2. (AP Photo/Journal and Courier, Michael Heinz)
The caisson carrying the casket of Army Capt. Kimberly Hampton is followed by family members during funeral services Saturday, Jan. 10, 2004, in Easley, S.C. Hampton of Easley, was killed Jan. 2 in Iraq, after her OH-58 Kiowa helicopter was shot down. Hampton, 27, the first woman pilot killed in Iraq, was commander of Delta Troop in the 1st Squadron of the 17th Cavalry Regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division. (AP Photo/Emily Horos)	Texas Gov. Rick Perry, second from right, attends the funeral of Capt. Ernesto Manuel Blanco-Caldas at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2003. Blanco-Caldas, 28, was killed when an explosive device struck his vehicle Dec. 28 in Qarat Ash Shababi, Iraq. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Members of the 88th Regional Readiness Command carry the casket of Army Staff Sgt. Tom Christensen during a funeral ceremony Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, in Highland, Mich. Christensen died in a Christmas Day mortar attack on his living quarters. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)	Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, left, presents a U.S. flag to Lillian Haight, mother of Army Spc. Charles G. Haight, who was killed Dec. 26 while serving with 14th Engineer Battalion in Iraq, during Spc. Haight's funeral Monday, Jan. 5, 2004, at the Main Post Chapel on Fort Lewis, Wash. Haight's widow, Micha, background left, sits with other family members during the ceremony. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Ron Soliman)
Crystal Ware, center, fiancee of Spc. Todd Bates, is supported by friends and family as she leaves s funeral service for Bates Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004, in Bellaire, Oh. Bates, who served in the Ohio National Guard, drowned in the Tigris River on Dec. 10 while attempting to rescue a fellow soldier. ( AP Photo/Times Leader, Michael Harvilla)	Todd Driscoll, right, a friend of the Bates family, carries a photo of Sgt. Todd Bates, during funeral services for Bates, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004, in Bellaire, Ohio. Bates, 20, an Ohio National Guardsman, died while trying to save a fellow soldier who had fallen into the Tigris River. (AP Photo/Times Leader, Michael Harvilla)
South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, foreground, joins others in paying their last respects to Capt. Christopher Soelzer at the conclusion of the funeral service Friday, Jan. 2, 2004, in Sturgis, S.D. Soelzer was killed by a bomb in Iraq on Christmas Eve. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Steve McEnroe)	Members of the 838th and 135th Military Police from Youngstown, and Brookpark, Ohio, prepare for the funeral services, in Bellaire, Ohio, for Ohio National Guardsman Todd Bates, Jan. 3, 2004. Bates died while trying to save a fellow soldier who had fallen into the Tigris River, in Iraq. (AP Photo/Times Leader, Michael Harvilla)
Tom Kuhn, father of Army Private Rey David Cuervo, 24, pats his son's casket at funeral home in San Benito, Texas, Friday, Jan. 2, 2004, before his son's body is taken to Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Port Isabel, Texas. Cuervo, 24, died Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003, when his vehicle was hit with an explosive device in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Valley Morning Star, Joe Hermosa)	Penny Splinter, left, comforts her daughter, Rachel, during the funeral of her husband U.S. Army Maj. Christopher Splinter in Platteville, Wis., Friday Jan. 2, 2004. Splinter, 43, a native of Platteville, was killed Christmas Eve by a roadside bomb near Samarra, Iraq. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)