There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
More than a million Americans have died in our wars—each one much loved by someone.
I think if we are at a war with an enemy country, that country is responsible for our soldiers' deaths.
The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.
George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
We held signs that said 'Thank God For Dead Soldiers,' 'Thank God For IEDs.'
With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.
Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.
