America's North Shore Journal

The 4,000th American has died in Iraq. The media have made this a milestone. As sad as this is for the family of that soldier, sailor, Marine or airman, it is just a number. Much was made of number 3,000, only for the media to have discovered later that through a combination of miscounting and delayed reporting, that man was number 2,996 or 2,997. 4,000 Americans have died. 81.5 percent were killed in combat, 18.5 percent … Read entire article »