I’m still wondering, do they publish deaths of wounded soldiers who die out of Iraq? I know during the VietNam war, they were not counted in the final count. They actually had a hard time getting their names on the wall. Just wondering……Also, as an example, a Major Gloria Davis was found shot in her room in Iraq. Does she not count as a casualty? If she were not there, she wouldn’t have been murdered. She’s a casualty of war, even if she was killed by one of our own. Just askin…..

Statistics on a Pentagon Web site have been reorganized in a way that lowers the published totals of American nonfatal casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, deputy director of force health protection and readiness at the Defense Department, said the previous method of tallying casualties was misleading and might have made injuries and combat wounds seem worse and more numerous than they really were.

The old method lumped many problems under the label “casualties,” including illnesses, minor injuries and injuries from accidents, as well as wounds sustained in combat. But the public may assume that every casualty is a war wound, Dr. Kilpatrick said, so the site was changed to avoid misunderstandings.

On Monday, the bottom line of the Defense Department’s Web page on casualties in Iraq listed a total of 47,657 “nonmortal casualties.”

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