"Chad Irby" wrote

The odd bit is that we keep hearing about *all* US deaths (accidents,
medical issues, and combat-related deaths) in Iraq, but only hear about
direct combat-related deaths after WWII.

And if you think we had a half-million GIs running around in Germany for
several months in 1945 and 1946 without so much as a traffic accident or
a heart attack...

Gen. Patton, for one.

Pete