The New York Times ran the following graphic today in connection with a story about the shelling of the mess tent inside the “secure zone” in Mosul yesterday:
 "Deaths of U.S. servicemen and women by day")
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Just something to think about when factoring the “cost” of the war and how our government is handling it…and this doesn’t include numbers for “enemy” or civilian deaths.
Another way to look at it that always gives me pause: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/casualties/facesofthefallen.htm