Today’s number is 2,567. Can you wrap your head around that number?
Through infosthetics.com I found this animated visualization simulating the US & coalition military fatalities that occured in Iraq.
The flash animation runs at 10 frames per second, one frame for each day, with data taken from icasualties.org. You basically watch the country explode and hear the lives lost, day by day. Be sure to click on About This Project to read the Intro, Methodology, and Conclusion.
Also of interest, a Calendar of the U.S. Military Dead. A coffin icon for each soldier lost on that day.
I think the astounding number is how many Iraq citizens have died, many of them non-combatants, to use the words in the parlance of our time. I’m not sure what the current number is, but I know it’s steadily growing and huge.
Yep, exactly. If we can’t even fathom our soldiers’ death toll, how do we begin to recognize the civilian deaths?
Iraq Body Count has the number between 39,460 and 43,927 but the British Medical Journal Lancet said it’s over 100,000. And they said that back in 2004, just imagine what it is now.