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August 26, 2005

Casualties of war

In summertime I commute an hour to and from work each day, and many evenings I listen to Terry Gross’s Fresh Air. Last night, Gross interviewed Kayla Williams, who served five years in the Army as an Arabic linguist, including a tour of Iraq. She’s written a book about her experience as a soldier called Love Me, Love My Rifle.

Toward the end of the interview, Williams told Gross about her marriage to a soldier she had met while stationed in Iraq. He still has shrapnel in his brain from a wound he suffered there. Williams described the initial care he received as excellent but added that the military seemed unprepared for the large number of traumatic wounds American soldiers are incurring in Iraq.

Kevlar vests and helmets have saved the lives of many men and women in Iraq who would have died in previous wars. The downside is that their wounds tend to be more severe than wounds in some earlier wars – amputations, head injuries, disfigurement, burns.

Williams’s discussion of these issues (click here to hear the interview) got me thinking about numbers. I’ve heard many commentators during the war in Iraq use the terms "deaths" and "casualties" interchangeably. “We’ve suffered more than 1,800 casualties,” they say, when in fact they are referring only to deaths.

That number grossly undercounts the American lives that have been lost or damaged by the invasion of Iraq. As of today, the official U.S. military death count is 1,874, but 13,877 have been wounded. The casualty count is thus 15,751.

And as we have seen in recent days from the duel between the antiwar parents called to action by Cindy Sheehan and the counter-forces mustered to cheer on President Bush, a casualty affects far more people than the soldier killed or wounded.

From the beginning, citizens have wanted to believe – and have been encouraged to believe – that the Iraq war’s human costs to American families were minimal. Iraq is no Vietnam and no World War II in this regard, but the casualties are mounting. The death count you hear every day doesn’t tell the whole story.

Posted by Mike Pride at August 26, 2005 03:23 PM

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