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Monday, November 12, 2012

Death Memorial

MSG Sean M. Mocabee

MSG Sean M. Mocabee died by suicide on 12 November 2008. He served his country for twenty-three years. Served two tours in Iraq and one or two in Afghanistan plus various other places around the world. He was a medic for eighteen of those years receiving two Bronze Stars for his service in this area. The second Bronze Star was given posthumously.

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Historical Fact

"Of the more than 274,000 officers and men who served in the army during the Spanish-American War and the period of demobilization, 5,462 died in the various theaters of operation and in camps in the a U.S. Only 379 of the deaths were battle casualties, the remainder being attributed to disease and other causes."

Source: Encyclopedia of American History by Richard Morris

In 1898, thousands of soldiers got food poisoning from meat packed by Armour and Company and sold to the Army. There are no figures on how many of the five thousand noncombat deaths were caused by this.

The Oxford Companion to American Military History estimates that between 2 percent and 25 percent of the casualties in America's wars are attributable to friendly fire.