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| Casualties and the injured during the Iraq War, 12/30/11. (photo: US Navy Seals) |
30 December 11
Reports about the end of the war in Iraq routinely describe the toll on the U.S. military the way the Pentagon does: 4,487 dead, and 32,226 wounded.
The death count is accurate. But the wounded figure
wildly understates the number of American servicemembers who have come
back from Iraq less than whole.
The true number of military personnel injured over the
course of our nine-year-long fiasco in Iraq is in the hundreds of
thousands - maybe even more than half a million - if you take into
account all the men and women who returned from their deployments with
traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress, depression, hearing
loss, breathing disorders, diseases, and other long-term health
problems.
We don't have anything close to an exact number, however, because nobody's been keeping track.
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