100 U.S. Dead in Afghanistan in Three Months

With so much else going on in the news -- a horrific mass shooting in Colorado, a huge election year and, of course, the economy -- it is far too easy for the average American to forget that we are a nation at war.  What little public debate there is about the continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan is incredibly muted and our people appear to largely believe we are winding down in that conflict. So we have a recipe for ignorance in which the majority of Americans have no clue about how many of our men and women are dying there every day.
The numbers of our war dead in Afghanistan just since May 1 are both sad and astounding: over 100 troops have died in less than three months, with 39 killed in May, 29 in June and 35 so far in July.
To give you an idea of how we are most assuredly not "winding down," there have been 2,063 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan in the 10 years and nine months since our war there began -- or an average of 16 deaths a month for almost 11 years.


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