I also found this on a blogger site.
The list of service members killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom includes people who were killed in traffic accidents, or died of heart attacks - and not necessarily just those in Iraq, but all who are in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, whether they are in Quatar, aboard a ship in the Persian Gulf, or, in one case, back home on leave.
Using the same criteria for those service members who are counted as KIA in Operation Iraqi Freedom, I did a web search on Google for service members killed in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Albania. Certainly, if there were none, as those blog posts claim, I wouldn't find any. Without any further ado, I now give you the list of people who were killed. Who don't exist, apparently.
Pfc. Floyd E. Bright
Sgt. 1st Class Donald A. Dugan
Sgt. Clement E. Southall Jr.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 David A.Gibbs
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kevin L. Reichert
Gunners Mate 2nd Class Chad Burkhart
Sherwood Brim
William Wright
Anthony Gilmann
SPC Blake Kelley
"Twenty U.S. soldiers have died in Bosnia since 1995," says a 2004 article from Defense News, but it doesn't give the names of all twenty who died. I've had a hard time finding articles that list names. I guess it's much easier to find statistics such as x people died rather than, the people who died were.
From (now deceased) Colonel David Hackworth's site comes the following information, "Sherwood Brim and William Wright have now joined David Gibbs, Kevin Reichert and Anthony Gilman, soldiers who also recently died in the Balkans. Let's not forget any of them or the scores of other service men and women who've paid the supreme price just since 1993, when "The Clinton Doctrine" received its baptism by fire and 18 American warriors were killed in the streets of Mogadishu. Since then, more than 100 uniformed guardians of this country have died while on global duty executing Madeleine Albright's "indispensable nation" strategy. But you seldom hear about these deaths unless the catastrophe is so big it can't be hidden or ignored -- like the shootout in Somalia or the U.S. Air Force hotel bombing in Saudi Arabia. " |
