About 30 percent of U.S. fatalities in Iraq come from accidents

Friday, January 16, 2004

The sorrow is the same. Sons and daughters, husbands and wives, have died while serving in Iraq, though not in battle. These lives were lost to car rollovers, drownings, heart attacks -- the nonhostile deaths that make up nearly a third of U.S. casualties.

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