2,000

That's the current U.S. death toll in Iraq.

So... yea.

The government wants to downplay this number. But they shouldn't be hidden like the administration has tried to do (ie. bans on photos of caskets, the controversy Ted Koppel got last year for reading the names of the fallen on the air). These were real people, not just token 'sacrifices'. They are more than just numbers. They had families; they were people.

The names

The faces