It seems nobody cares much anymore, but today's number is 3,739

[ThomWV]

It used to be the number of American service persons killed in Iraq was on everyone lips, now not so much.

I care, I care very much.

[hlthe2b]

1. Do you really think that a fair statement (appraisal) of those

of us on this website?

[BlooInBloo]

23. Unless you say it every 10 seconds, you don't care.

[FreakinDJ]

2. I talk to a father of 2 serving in Iraq

I ask him every time I see him how his 2 boys are doing - He thanks me sincerely for my concern

god does he hate Bush

[onethatcares]

26. my son is coming home from his first deployment

I'll see him on or about 9/17/07. He's very glad to be out of theater. He has two months off than gets redeployed back in. I hate this fucking war.

[niyad]

3. we do care.

[terip64]

4. Of course we care. But thank you for reminding us. I didn't know the current #. n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Every day is Memorial Day...

This fucking, dumb-ass, worthless war...:grr::cry:

[blues90]

6. When people don't see it everyday then it becomes just numbers

That's what we were told not long ago , it's just numbers by Tony snow . Beside this occupation going on so long seems to tend to make people immune to reality .

I care but I see little about this issue since it is hidden under all the talk of who will be the next president and who will turn this all around .

I am really troubled by the presidential hopefuls from both sides when right now their job is to stop this war machine , this is what they are paid for , not to campaign and rake in millions to do so .

[Disturbed]

10. Family & friends care but the Busholini Regime doesn't.

Most Americans see the numbers on the TV & shrug. What can they do about it when the Dems keep the $$$ for the US Occupation flowing?

[Solly Mack]

7. I live every day with that ever growing number

Every second of every day...

I can't escape it. Not even for a minute.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. K&R.

I still care very much about the troops, the DSM, New Orleans, you name it regarding the items these cannibal businessmen have left in an ever-widening swath behind them...

[w8liftinglady]

9. that's not fair.I speak out publicly all the time.

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/07/18/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter3.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/07/06/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-dawson-07-06.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/07/06/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-dawson-07-06.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/06/19/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter2.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/05/30/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter2.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/05/30/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter2.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/05/03/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter1.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/03/08/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/00-letter-dawson.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2007/03/02/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/00-letter-dawson.txt
http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2006/12/26/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter5.txt

[annabanana]

13. I'm sure the op wasn't talking about you, or the many other

dedicated people here who never stop, never let up.

[annabanana]

11. It rises relentlessly, breaking hearts and ruining lives unnumbered

all across the Country.

This is never "just a number", never "a comma". Each and every number is a full and fully lived life interrupted, a family never started, a family destroyed. These young people are not just the 20 or 25 year old. They are also the infant, the toddler, the school child. They are everything they lived and learned.

We never forget that. We never stop fighting to end the killing.

[lyonn]

17. The Sunday news shows usually list the names, ages

and home towns of the latest releases from the Pentagon. More and more I notice that troops in their 30's and 40's are being listed. Our presidential candidates could recognize these brave troops occasionally.... As Robert Dallek talked about on c-span booknotes today, the similarities of the Nixon White House to Bush's are so terribly similar. He insinuates that others are leading this president. Others were leading Nixon too, especially when Nixon was in a drunken stupor! Kissinger and Haig and others made critical nuke decisions during the big dust up in about 1970(?) with Israel and Egypt(?), Syria(?) war. It is worth watching if and when it is shown again, it has been on at least twice so far.

[JohnnyLib2]

12. A father of 6 was buried here yesterday: Iraq non combat death.

Many care.

[Yael]

14. I care. K & R

[baldguy]

15. .

:mad:

[Binka]

18. Oh My God

:cry:

[whistle]

37. Now that is very dramatic

[Katherine Brengle]

16. : (

[malaise]

19. Lots of us care

particularly those of us who had or have family in Iraq. We know Bushco and MSM don't give a flying fugg. Bushco says they're a comma and the only numbers MSM count are ratings.

I think people are frustrated that these war criminals are getting away with murder.

[democrank]

20. My first stop each and every morning....

http://icasualties.org/oif/



~PEACE~

[Middle finga]

21. It's just that so many americans don't have any relatives in this war.

[intaglio]

22. k&r n/t

[Canadiana]

24. Peace

[superkia]

25. I truly hope that when the primaries come, we vote to end the death toll!

I truly hope we all think of those people, their friends and their families when we cast that primary vote, that will be when we truly see what America cares about!

[unhappycamper]

27. Most of us do care.

Veterans especially. It's why we march and speak on the issue. It's why we care what happens to our veterans.

[progressoid]

28. Remember when 2000 was a "milestone"

But then 3000 came and went without much attention.

What a sad state of affairs.

[Olney Blue]

29. This war is insane, and was started by an insane chimpanzee.

I can hardly think of anything else.

:cry:

[B Calm]

30. 3,739 soldiers died for nothing

[wellstone dem]

31. I care.

[Pierzin]

32. I care ThomWV. I just wrote about yesterday.

Here ya go.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x30651

As someone whose whole family has been in the military, I care very much. I am continually in fear for our world that this war criminal * is still in charge. I am pissed of that I had to do a search on google at the DoD to write my post above. I am pissed off that we were lied into a war, and almost no one in the media is covering it to do it justice as they should. It should be front page news 24/7.

Hey Mainstream Media! We were lied into a war! There's a senator who must resign because he wanted a quickie in a mens room, and yet these WAR CRIMINALS in the Bush Admin are still in charge????
And our military is taking the heat? And the demagogues in congress are not going to Impeach???
How many hundreds of thousands of innocents in Iraq are dead, disfigured, starved to death, because of PNAC and the NeoCons and greed???????
:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I talked to a someone who was very active in the 60s, and she didn't understand why we don't have mass demonstrations nationwide, and I don't either. I think it must have been like this in Wiemar Germany.

Peace ThomWV. Keep the faith.

[Kolesar]

33. What do you mean? It's the biggest issue of our time!

How did this ever get 21 recommendations? And only one post by the o/p

[shadowknows69]

34. I care too Thom

and please don't assume because everyone isn't wallowing in the horror of it that we don't. It's become too hard for some. I don't think that means they've lost sight of the prize (IE. Peace) but the situation looks so hopeless lately that we know that number is just going to grow exponentially if Bush starts his war with Iran. They should start building the war on terror memorial wall now because if we cross this Rubicon it could very well be ten times longer than the Vietnam wall. I'm steeling myself for greater horrors to come so I have to ignore the current ones for a while. That's just me and my two cents. I speak for no one else.
S

[Stuckinthebush]

35. I'd say everyone here cares very much

That number is only going to rise especially with Congress not forcing the issue.

Didn't we push to get the Dems in for something? Oh, yes - to stop this war and to reign in Bush.

Oh, well.

[LibDemAlways]

36. On a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area I

came across this memorial in the town of Lafayette. It's visible from the highway and from the frequent BART trains that stop at the nearby station. This picture was taken almost 1 thousand deaths ago.



I wish more of these memorials dotted the landscape. I think people should be reminded. Too much out of sight, out of mind in this country.

[WacoRenegade]

38. Remember before it was a number?

With the first couple hundred deaths we got virtual biographies for each one. Somewhere that turned into a simple number to the point you had to dig a while to find even the names. Now you have to dig a while to even find the numbers.

Wonder where it'll go next.

[VLC]

39. I hate seeing that number.

Because it completely ignores all the Iraqis and others who have died because of this. It seems to suggest that their deaths are not as important. I suspect that's not the message you mean to convey, but that is how it always comes across to me.

[speedoo]

40. Just because we don't talk about it as much.......

does NOT mean we don't care.

I think about it a lot. And I think most if not all DUers care as well.

Thanks.

[sandyj999]

41. I not only care but it breaks my heart..............

But what can we do? I voted for people that I thought would do something and they just haven't come through for us. Now what?

[onewholaughsatfools]

42. I dare you make a statement like that,

You damn right I care have always cared and will continue to care, I am so pissed off that the most of the elected do not care.. they are the one's who hold the purse strings on this issue, they are the one's who votes to make change, we voted for them do do just this and nothing happens, You damn right I Care and u damn right I am pissed. Not that this matters but I am also a vietnam era vet.......Blessings!

[SlingBlade]

43. TWO EVERY SINGLE DAY ON AVG.

It's now 3740 :(

[Plucketeer]

44. I cared

I cared before the first soldier died because of the Bushdoggle! I think the president ought to have 8 X 10 glossys of each and every one pinned up on the walls of the oval office! :mad:

[HughBeaumont]

45. Headed to DC on Sept 15, because I care.

This HAS to end.

NOW.

[lebkuchen]

46. Americans are programmed to lose 80 soldiers per month

and not mind.

What a sad society. If it were Italy, there would be millions in the streets raising hell every day.

[WillyT]

47. I Know What You Mean...

Link: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html

:mad:

[LWolf]

48. I care, and I know the number.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3493843&mesg_id=3493843

[defendandprotect]

49. Is MSM hitting the numbers? There are more than 250,000 suffering PTSD and wounded...........??????

I'm not sure what the count on wounded is now --

I don't watch MSM so I have no idea how much they're hitting the numbers -- ???

There was at least one anti-war protest in my area last Tuesday and I missed it --
I was waiting to ask a friend to go with me and then lost track of it!!!

[StarfishG]

50. I've been organizing vigils,

writing, calling, thinking about this god-awful mess of a war every day...I talk to a Gold Star Mom I befriended at a protest at least once a week, I'm tired, but I haven't stopped.
At any rate, staying busy has helped me deal with the sorrow of it all.

[Rhiannon12866]

51. Nobody does much care, do they?

Remember the "Wall of Honor" that they used to have on CNN? How long ago was that and what happened to it? They would have to be on 24/7 reporting on each and every casualty and build another building to put up all those pix. These poor souls are just numbers now, not real people, with families, friends and lives. Bill Maher said it best, that all this has just become background noise: more deaths, more bombings, blah, blah, blah. You're right, nobody cares, or is listening anymore... But I care, too.;(

[dogday]

52. I care very much about that number

And I feel very deeply for the family and friends of each one of those soldiers...

May they Rest In Peace.....