[Southack]

31-Jul-2008	1	| US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	NAME NOT RELEASED YET	Ninawa Province	Non-hostile
30-Jul-2008	1	| US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	Sergeant James A. McHale	National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, - Baghdad	Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
17-Jul-2008	1	| US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	Technical Sergeant Jackie L. Larsen	Balad (Balad Air Base) - Salah ad Din	Non-hostile
15-Jul-2008	2	| US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	Staff Sergeant David W. Textor	Mosul - Ninawa	Hostile - hostile fire
	US	Staff Sergeant Jeremy D. Vrooman	Knan (died in Baghdad) - Diyala	Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
14-Jul-2008	2	| US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	Aviation Boatswain Mate 3rd Class Daniel R. Verbeke	Paoli, Pennsylvania - NA	Non-hostile - accident (on flight deck)
	US	Staff Sergeant Danny Dupre	Ramadi - Anbar	Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
13-Jul-2008	1	| US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	Lance Corporal Jeffery S. Stevenson	Falluja - Anbar	Non-hostile
10-Jul-2008	0	| US: 0 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
09-Jul-2008	3	| US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	Sergeant Alex R. Jimenez	Jurf al-Sakhar - Baghdad	Hostile - hostile fire - body found
	US	Private Byron J. Fouty	Jurf al-Sakhar - Baghdad	Hostile - hostile fire - body found
	US	Sergeant 1st Class Steven J. Chevalier	Samarra (died in Balad) - Salah Ad Din	Hostile - hostile fire - grenade
08-Jul-2008	1	| US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	Specialist William L. McMillan III	Baghdad (west of)	Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
05-Jul-2008	1	| US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
	US	Sergeant 1st Class Anthony Lynn Woodham	Tallil (Camp Adder) - Dhi Qar	Non-hostile - electrocution
02-Jul-2008	0	| US: 0 | UK: 0 | Other: 0

[Southack]

What post #35 above shows is that 13 good Americans gave their lives for us in Iraq in July, 2008.

Or more detailed...that we lost 6 good men to hostile combat in July. Two were killed in May of 2007 at the start of the Surge, but their bodies were only recovered this month, and another 5 were killed in work accidents (e.g. vehicle wrecks).

6 to hostile combat.

We mourn all of our lost ones, and each death is tragic, but on the scope of a *war*, losing 6 men during an entire month of fighting pretty well shows that the war is over.

We won.

And yes, it was a “single digit month” as predicted.

[wardaddy]

average aged 28.

seems to defy the way the media promotes the conventional wisdom

i remember here in Nashville when the casualties were being called with the Fifth Special Forces guys out of Fort Campbell in Afghanistan.....most were mid 30s....some even late 40s.