Another soldier killed, 2 hurt in "accident" CNN TV no link yet...eom

[karlschneider]

Edit: this may be a dupe, didn't see Don's post from this morning...
I can't keep up.

If dupe, someone alert. sorry.

[DemoTex]

1. Karl, it is truly hard to tell.

We really need a clearing house on the military deaths in Iraq. I stay confused.

[tinnypriv]

2. Here you go

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx :)

[DemoTex]

3. Duely bookmarked. Thanks.

How quickly is this site updated after a death? Any idea?

[pansypoo53219]

5. they

make sure they have confirmation of death. also have the name in details.

[osaMABUSh]

4. Sounds like a suicide crash against the soldiers

any other details out there?

[JewelDigger]

6. Did any of you read this story in Time Mag?

<snip>

Chris Coffin wasn't supposed to be in harm's way in Iraq. He was killed there this month.

"...Betsy always kept the TV on at home, checked the Internet at work. The next afternoon she heard there had been another attack. "He hasn't called," she told a colleague at the hospital where she is a social worker. When she got home, Betsy found a pair of Army officers waiting in their car. They had been there most of the day. Chris had not made it back to Kuwait. His vehicle had apparently swerved into a ditch trying to avoid a civilian vehicle outside Baghdad; he died shortly after being airlifted to a hospital south of Baghdad.

But by the next day, Betsy had learned there might be more to her husband's death than a highway accident. And even weeks later, the Army cannot tell Betsy exactly what actually happened to Chris on the morning of July 1.

First Sergeant Coffin was the first American soldier to die in Iraq this month, and before the week was out, six more would be killed."

<snip>

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030721-464403,00.html

on edit: oops - I now see this story has a thread of it's own. Sowwy

[jpak]

7. This was front page news in Maine all last week

Glad to see it is getting attention from the national media.

ChimpCo is playing fast and loose with US casualties in I-raq - and the payback's a bitch.