We should honor everyone of them for their ultimate sacrifice, not use them as a reason to cut and run. They weren't part of the me, me, me crowd that is tearing this country apart.
In perspective during past wars there were days when 2,000 fatalities was a normal day.
The left is sorry. Sorry that 10,000 of our guys have not died yet. That was their prediction years ago (we would lose tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians would be dead).
We've seen their protest banners that they love NY more without the WTC and that they support our troops when they shoot their officers (like Sgt. Akbar).
They are traitors in word and deed. They support our enemy (and some now call for negotiated peace with the "insurgents". The "insurgents" don't want peace. They could run for office in Iraq. They seem to rule by terror.
Omaha Beach-Normandy France-June 6,1944.
Interestingly, in some ways, that 2000 is too low. Lots of people are surviving with unpeakably horrible medical problems, when they would have died before (just years earlier from today, even)-- sort of a quality of life deal. The medical costs for taking care of these injured soldiers is almost the same as caring for a lot more of the previous generation's soldiers-- because the injuries are so much more serious.