The Price We Pay (as of August 8, 2005)

According to the Department of Defense, 1,829 Americans (military and DOD civilian) have been killed in Iraq as of August 8, 2005. The number of wounded remains at 13,769.

To put the number of dead in perspective, it equates to two people killed every day that we have been in Iraq. Using a "constant casualty comparitive" of 1.5 to 1 (Vietnam to today), that is the equivalent of 2,743 KIAs during the Vietnam War, which is approximately the number of KIAs in Vietnam as of Spring 1966.

Put another way, it is the same as if, over the course of 843 days, you killed everyone in the town of Helmetta, New Jersey (population: 1,825).