150 American Soldiers Died In Iraq Between National Days of Protests

From October 27th to March 19th – 150 Families Buried Their Family Member – Killed in Iraq.

SAN DIEGO, CA. It just came to me as I was reading a post I wrote back after the October 27, 2007, National Day of Action. 3,840 American servicemen and women had died in Iraq by then. Now, the death toll is 3,990, almost 4,000. This means that between that National Day of protests in late October and this week’s events of protest, commemorating the 5th anniversary of the start of the war and occupation, 150 American soldiers and marines have perished. If the war had ended then, these 150 individuals would still be alive. 150 families would still have their son, daughter, husband, brother, sister, mother. Of course, Iraqi deaths within this same time period were much, much higher.

I wonder how many will die between now and the next national day of “action.” Something is terribly wrong with this picture. WE MUST MAKE IT STOP! NOW!

Frank Gormlie
A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.

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