Iraq: 4802
-no casualties this past week
Afghanistan: 2876
BATEMAN, Jon-Luke, 22, CPL, USMC, Tulsa, OK, I Marine Expeditionary Force
COCHRAN, Kenneth E., 20, LCPL, USMC, Wilder, ID, III Marine Expeditionary Force
WISE, Benjamin B., 34, Seaman, US Army, Little Rock, AR, 1st Special Forces Group
BENSON, Keith D., 27, SPEC, US Army, Brockton, MA, 172nd Infantry Brigade
McGEATH, Phillip D., 25, CPL, USMC, Glendale, AZ, II Marine Expeditionary Force
LOGAN, Joseph D., 22, CPL, USMC, Willis, TX, III Marine Expeditionary Force
McHONE, Nathan R., 29, CAPT, USMC, Crystal Lake, IL, III Marine Expeditionary Force
STITES, Jesse W., 23, CPL, USMC, North Beach, MD, III Marine Expeditionary Force
BARTLE, Daniel B., 27, CAPT, USMC, Ferndale, WA, III Marine Expeditionary Force
REINHARD, Kevin, 25, CPL, USMC, (home not reported), III Marine Expeditionary Force
RIDDICK, Travis, 40, MSGT, USMC, Centerville, IA, III Marine Expeditionary Force
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.List from The Daily Office.
May God give comfort, consolation, and the peace that passes understanding to those who love the service members who died.
Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Source: iCasualties.org
We read these names every Sunday in church. There is a small controversy around the practice. One of our parishoners insists that we remember in some fashion the Afghan civilian war dead in the conflict, especially those killed by American military action.
ReplyDeleteSome of the members of our parish began reading the names of dead soldiers as an anti-war gesture that I don't think was meant to slight Afghan civilians, though I can see how it might appear that way.
That should be Afghan and Iraqi civilian war dead.
ReplyDeleteAmen. RIP.
ReplyDeleteWar No More!
I posted this on Facebook and someone immediately replied that we should pray for Iraqis and Afghans killed, too, and of course we should. I don't mean to slight them. I think that here in the US we sometimes forget we are at war. I doubt that the Afghans forget there's a war in their country, and the Iraqis are killing each other now.
ReplyDeleteLord, have mercy!
Thank you, Mimi. As you know, I just could not keep up the frequent postings but I am glad you remind us all that these are not numbers; they are people. None of the casualties of war on any side is a number.
ReplyDeleteRequiescant in pace.
War No More, indeed.
ReplyDeletePaul, I've slipped up lately, too.
ReplyDeleteSadly, the Iraqis were fighting each other while our troops were still in the country, so it's not just since we left that the situation turned violent.