THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY

digitally altered photo - S. Auberle

There have been 2,509 coalition deaths,
2,314 Americans, one Australian, 103 Britons,
13 Bulgarians, two Danes, two Dutch, two
Estonians, one Hungarian, 26 Italians, one
Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Salvadoran,
three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and
18 Ukranians in the war in Iraq as of March 17,
2006, according to a CNN count. - CNN website

A London-based human rights group called
Iraq Body Count estimates that at least
33,638 Iraqui civilians have been killed as a
result of the war and up to 37,754 may have
died in the conflict, based on the group's
independent tabulation of deaths confirmed
in media reports. - Cox News Service

May they rest in peace.