A day to remember

By Chris Kromm / May 26, 2008

As the website iCasualties, which catalogs Iraq war casualties, reported in March:


After five years in Iraq, the U.S. military has suffered over 33,000 casualties, more than 29,000 wounded and 4,000 dead, and it remains engulfed by three converging currents that constitute the Iraq War - the underlying military conflict, the battle for political control, and grinding civil strife.

As the Institute has documented, the South has been uniquely hard-hit by war. Here are the numbers of those affected in Southern states:

STATE / INJURED / KILLED / TOTAL CASUALTIES
ALABAMA / 514 / 67 / 581
ARKANSAS / 448 / 59 / 507
FLORIDA / 1384 / 177 / 1561
GEORGIA / 856 / 124 / 980
KENTUCKY / 464 / 63 / 527
LOUISIANA / 582 / 79 / 661
MISSISSIPPI / 276 / 49 / 325
NORTH CAROLINA / 819 / 97 / 916
SOUTH CAROLINA / 384 / 49 / 433
TENNESSEE / 574 / 84 / 658
TEXAS / 2891 / 386 / 3277
VIRGINIA / 706 / 117 / 823
WEST VIRGINIA / 214 / 22 / 236

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