We Don't Know Their Names Yet. Some We Never Will.
by Meteor Blades
Mon Apr 23, 2007 at 06:22:12 PM PDT
As a number of Diarists and numerous commenters have pointed out, nine American soldiers were killed by a suicide bombing in Iraq's Diyala province today.
services, for instance. (Not.)
At the current death rate, April 2007 will be the worst month since April 2004 for "coalition" fatalities. That was the month of the first battle of Fallujah. How many of THEIR names do we remember?
But at least we may have once heard their names in passing. It is, of course, the rarest of occasions when we hear the name of one of the dozens, sometimes scores, of Iraqis who are killed on any particular day. A member of parliament or a general may rate a few lines, but the average Iraqi stays nameless in the American media. Ah well. Those names are so hard to pronounce anyway.
All of them killed for lies.
In memory of the Americans, British and Iraqis who we know were killed today.
Attack in Diyala province comes same day 5 other explosions kill 46Two other "coalition" deaths were reported today, an American in Muqdadiyah-Diyala and a British soldier in Basra. Their names have also not been released. At best, even when we do learn who they were, we'll only hear the barest of details about their lives in the mainstream media. Name, rank, age and the name of their hometown, often some little place you never heard of unless you live nearby. In a couple of days, you can find out a lot more about them and other soldiers killed in Iraq at Spread the Word: Iraq-Nam, where there are also stories about soldiers who have returned home and what life for them is about. Whether their government is providing them with adequate
The names of the soldiers who were killed are being held pending notification of their families. All were members of Task Force Lightning.
Suicide bombers attacked five other locations in Iraq on Monday, killing 46 people and wounding more than 100, officials said as the U.S. ambassador stopped short of saying construction on a controversial wall in Baghdad would be halted.
The deadliest suicide attack occurred near a restaurant on a highway close to Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, killing at least 19 people and wounding 35, said Ramadi police Maj. Fuad al-Asafia.
services, for instance. (Not.)
At the current death rate, April 2007 will be the worst month since April 2004 for "coalition" fatalities. That was the month of the first battle of Fallujah. How many of THEIR names do we remember?
But at least we may have once heard their names in passing. It is, of course, the rarest of occasions when we hear the name of one of the dozens, sometimes scores, of Iraqis who are killed on any particular day. A member of parliament or a general may rate a few lines, but the average Iraqi stays nameless in the American media. Ah well. Those names are so hard to pronounce anyway.
All of them killed for lies.
In memory of the Americans, British and Iraqis who we know were killed today.
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