No need to apologize, I was only ballparking the number anyway, 3,000 on 9-11, 3,000 in Iraq and another 1,000 for Afghanistan, the Cole etc.
Did you know that in 1941 before the attack on Pearl Harbor some US ships and German ships did a little shooting at each other and some US Sailor were killed?
The destrpyer USS Rueben James was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat BEFORE we were at war.