{"id":1129,"date":"2004-07-07T17:32:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-07-07T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2004-07-08T00:32:08","slug":"another-terrible-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/another-terrible-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Terrible Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war on Iraq claimed yet another life today, this time in a traffic accident in Balad, Iraq. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/CENTCOMNews\/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20040708.txt\">CentCom reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>One 13th Corps Support Command Soldier was killed and four injured as the result of a vehicle accident near Ramadi at approximately 1 a.m. July 7.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/releases\/2004\/nr20040706-0982.html\">the Department of Defense released the name of a female soldier stationed in Afghanistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Spc. Julie R. Hickey, 20, of Galloway, Ohio, was evacuated from Bagram, Afghanistan, on June 30 and died in Landstuhl, Germany, on July 4 of complications from a non-combat related illness.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Such incidents rarely garner headlines in the mainstream media. These two deaths, however, bring the deaths totals in Iraq and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/ops\/enduring-freedom.htm\">Afghanistan<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/casualties\/\">872<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/icasualties.org\/oef\/\">129<\/a> respectively, and thus the total count to 1001. Once coupled with the official wounded count in Iraq of <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/casualties\/\">over 5000<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/news\/7368173.htm\">unofficial count of 7,000-10,000<\/a>, the human cost of these interventions demands we continue to ask those who supported or continue to support this war: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thememoryhole.org\/war\/wounded\/\">at what cost<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war on Iraq claimed yet another life today, this time in a traffic accident in Balad, Iraq. CentCom reports: One 13th Corps Support Command Soldier was killed and four injured as the result of a vehicle accident near Ramadi at approximately 1 a.m. July 7. Yesterday, the Department of Defense released the name of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}