The latest milestone for a country at war came Friday without commemoration. It came without the precision of knowing who was the 2,974th to die in conflict.
In fact, the Department of Defense lists the "KIA" in Iraq as 2,150 as of September 22, 2006 at 10 am. It lists KIA in Afghanistan as 179. The sum is 2,329 - far short of the 2,974 figure by about 645.
The figures run by the AP include "non-hostile" fatalities - fatalities normally not associated with dying in a "conflict" at the hands of a hostile enemy.
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