The Unreported Cost of War...

From a 2003 article in The Guardian, the beginning of a trend which has continued through 2007:

US military casualties from the occupation of Iraq have been more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe because of an extraordinarily high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths in the ranks that have gone largely unreported in the media.

The unreported cost of war: at least 827 American wounded Iraq ...Iraq veteran wins blog prize as US military cuts web access ... suicides and other non-combat deaths in the ranks that have gone largely unreported in the ...

--submitted by Patti Woodard