3682 U.S. soldiers and civilians have died in the Iraq War (May 26, 2007). Soldiers from the U.K., Italy, S. Korea, and many thousands from Iraq have died in the fighting. In October 2006, a U.S. university research team estimated that 655,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed; that was seven months ago. They said the war kills 500 Iraqis every day.
Funeral of U.S. Army Sgt. Gary Brent Coleman, age 24, Nov. 30, 2003, Pikeville, KY. Photo: Shawn Poynter for AP.
Funeral of paratrooper Jacob Fletcher, 28, November 19, 2003, Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn, N.Y, Doreen and Ray Kenny, Fletcher’s mother and stepfather, sit at left. Photo: Ed Betz, for AP.
Memorial for Kim Sun-Il, who was executed in Iraq. South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon pays his respects, 6/23/04, Busan, South Korea. Photo: Reuters.
Funeral in Kirkuk, Iraq, Jan. 30, 2006 for a boy killed in a bomb attack outside a church. Photo: Slahaldeen Rasheed, for Reuters.
Funeral for Master Sgt. Kevin Morehead, September 21, 2003, Fredonia Cemetery, near Judsonia, Arkansas, Chaplain Marc Gauthier, presiding. Photos: Janet Wilson, for the Daily Citizen.
Funeral of Marine Paul Collins, May 2006, CTC Lympstone Collins, of Britain’s Royal Navy, was killed in Basra. Photo: Royal Navy.
Sabrina Dent, at the funeral of her son Spc. Darryl Dent, 21, a member of the District of Columbia National Guard, Arlington National Cemetery, Sept. 8, 2003. Dent died while on convoy duty near the town of Arimadi, Iraq. Photo: Stephen J. Boitano, for AP.
Funeral of Izzadine SaleemIraqi, May 2004, Baghdad. SaleemIraqi was chairman of the Iraqi Governing Council. Photo: Muhammed Muheisen, for AP.
Funeral of DC3 Nathan Bruckenthal of the US Coast Guard, Arlington National Cemetery, May 7, 2004. Photo: PA2 Fa’iq El-Amin, for USCG.
Funeral mass for 19 Italian soldiers who died in Iraq. November 18, 2003, Saint Paul’s Basilica, Rome.
A child’s funeral in Iraq, February 2006. Photo: via Middle East News.
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