• 1,742 American soldiers have died in the war in Afghanistan.
• 13,316 American soldiers have been wounded in the war in Afghanistan.
• We've lost THREE more soldiers in Afghanistan as of Tuesday, August 16th.
(icasualties.org, defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf, defense.gov/releases)
• 4,478 American soldiers have died in the war in Iraq.
• 32,172 American soldiers have been wounded in the war in Iraq.
• We've lost ONE more soldier in Iraq as of Tuesday, August 16th.
• The war in Afghanistan is the longest war in U.S. history.
• A record-breaking 245 American soldiers killed themselves in 2009. (CNN)
• More U.S. soldiers are dying from drug overdose, suicide, murder, and accidents than from combat. (PoliticsDaily.com)
• At least 102,165 Iraqi civilians have been killed. (IraqBodyCount.org)
• 2.8 million Iraqis have been displaced. (Internal Displacement Monitoring Center)
• We've spent $791 billion waging the war in Iraq, and $444 billion in Afghanistan.
• It costs $390,000 to deploy a soldier for one year. (Congressional Research Service)
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