1 We could always buy them from China.........I understand we have good friends in high places there.........Moe Strong or maybe Jean Cretin could broker a great deal........LOL I agree that it would be nice to have them designed and built in Canada, but just think of the Politicing over who and where they would be built.......Perhaps in the interest of National Security, we could all pull together and "get it done" this time.

2 If they are to be a foreign purchase, then may I suggest that Israel has some of the best ones.

3 I would encourage Canada to have its own domestic military aircraft program, but to equate a Canadian built UAV with one of the worlds great supersonic interceptor aircraft is stretching it a bit.. as well as being a tad insulting..

4 A post at "The Torch": "UAVs for Arctic surveillance?" Mark Ottawa

5 kursk, I would respectfully disagree. Though the some of the challenges of a UAV pale to that of making a supersonic interceptor, the software/datalink component along with the remote control elements I think make up for it in new an interesting ways. Size (and speed) isn't everything.

6 We have the technology in Canada, the airframes, the engines, the electronics/robotics, but nobody's integrated it because the players are all too small to carry the required blue-sky research. Clever hardware is expensive. No doubt, the Americans can produce an integrated and clever solution for less money, but they haven't succeeded in selling outside America. So we'll get back to the old Liberal idea of subsidizing winners, but the bureaucrats always prefer going with low-bidders and off-the-shelf, obsolete, junk (think Sperwer or VW Iltis or MLVW or the used submarines). A Tory dimwit like Flaherty will never be able to get his head around anything like a Canadian UAV. Nope. I don't see any way of getting to a good, useful solution. Sorry!

7 Gentlemen, we can fix this. We have the technology. We can create, Canada's first unmanned arial drone. Better, faster, more resistant to cold weather.

8 Why does not Canada work at designing a manned aircraft to replace the aging buffalos and Auroras? For example, an aircraft with the same airframe but different equipment for different roles. If you combined the transport, surveillance and search and rescue needs of DND you could perhaps easily come up with an order of 40 or so planes. Bombardier already makes planes of a similar size to what would be required. Harper could maybe address Canada's needs and score points with Quebec's manufacturing sector at the smae time.

9 Of course we could buy a few UAV's as well!

10 JJ Joseph: The Australians definitely, and perhaps others in Asia, are interested in the Global Hawk: http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/World/STIStory_163972.html Note also "AustraliaÂ’s decision to provisionally join the US NavyÂ’s BAMS [Broad Area Maritime Surveillance] program..." http://www.yaffa.com.au/defence/current/5-1099.htm Mark Ottawa

11 Stephen: As to Bombardier, see this post: "Marine pollution surveillance aircraft" http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2006/12/marine-pollution-surveillance-aircraft.html However the Q Series does not have the range or endurance to do what the Aurora does. Designing and building an all-new aircraft to do that is simply beyond the capabilities of Bombardier at any reasonable price. Even the plane the US and Australia are buying, the P-8 Poseidon, is based on the 737 airframe. http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/p8-poseidon-mma-longrange-maritime-patrol-and-more-02980/ And will be used in tandem with BAMS UAVs. I would suggest for Canada a combination of the Q Series for east and west coast limited range surveillance, together with BAMS for the long range surveillance mission off all three coasts. Q Series could be sent up north when specifically required. It is unlikely we will need the weapons capabilities of the P-8 (though that would be nice to have could we afford them). Mark Ottawa

12 Mark Collins noted that:"The Australians definitely, and perhaps others in Asia, are interested in the Global Hawk" Yes, you're correct, but nobody else has actually purchased the system. The cost is staggering for a "little" plane about the size of a Twin Otter. The Global Hawk's total cost of $123,000,000 each dwarfs the P-8's puny $70,000,000 unit price. This is really exotic stuff!

13 Whatever the gov't decides to do, you can guarantee it'll be the wrong decision and cost the taxpayer a large fortune.

14 Long one - sorry, all. In My Humble Opinion we're pursuing UAV's for all the wrong reasons, and only two right ones. The two right reasons are that a UAV is a whole lot cheaper to operate than a patrol aircraft, and we don't care nearly as much when it crashes. Indeed, only the second reason necessarily holds true in the Great White North. The UAV is being controlled by a team perhaps thousands of miles away, but HOW??? How do we communicate with the UAV? A dedicated control link needs satellites - the north is a notorious communications black hole, and there are no cellphone towers up there - and satellites don't come cheap. Indeed, you need a lot of satellites in circumpolar orbit, because a single satellite in geostationary orbit can't "see" all of the Canadian north. So we're talking a large number of dedicated circumpolar satellites - useful for a lot of other things at the same time, but enormously expensive nonetheless - or a UAV so capable that it only needs occasional access to its control team and can fly the whole mission by itself. I.E., it would also be enormously expensive. Let's see all the things our UAV must do: - Fly a LONG way, preferably fast. This means high-altitude; and we can't have our UAV's colliding with civil airliners up there, so it must operate in (or above) ICAO airspace - in other words, REALLY high. An advanced turbine engine, at $1+ million each, and MNPS-compliant navigation suite (needed anyways) that can be flight-planned by its team on the ground; another $1+ million each. - Stay there a long time once it gets there. They can stay considerably longer if they can watch from high altitude, but that doesn't happen very often in the north due to clouds. They'll have to go low-level frequently, and turbines are notoriously inefficient at low altitudes - which is why the old Argus had piston engines, and the Aurora has turboprops. So you're talking a LOT of fuel, and a BIG airframe to carry it - and a bigger engine to push it through the sky, and more fuel for the bigger engine; you get the picture. - Have full anti-icing capability, and know when to use it. No point flying over the North for most of the year without full de-icing capabilities. You have your EO (electro-optic) turret out and are watching something - fly through a small cloud and get icing on the lens - you're blind, and if your UAV can't clean the lens itself, it'll have to fly all the way home for it. And if the engine or control surfaces can't de-ice themselves, it'll crash and we'll need a new one. - A very high-capability surveillance suite. Radar can look through clouds, and spot just about anything moving, and image small structures, and sweep vast swathes of terrain in a hurry - but such a radar is cutting-edge and extremely pricy, and needs a lot of very clean power (i.e. a bigger engine again), and requires a whole lot of data storage; and the EO turret needs a lot of storage too, and you CAN NOT send high-detail live video feeds home in real time via satellite, not via any satellite that Canada possesses. So it'll have to store everything for post-mission interpretation in our to-be-built ultramodern facility at our UAV's home Base. - Is this UAV starting to sound real expensive to anybody else? And there's another big drawback to this UAV; it's mostly good for surveillance of the Great White North, and recent governments (notably Liberal ones) have cheerfully neglected that role. I suggest the money ain't there for that role under a Conservative government either, and particularly not a minority one - and particularly not the HUGE $$$$$ needed for uniform 24/7 coverage of the whole North, which to be honest about it, Canada has survived so far without. Whereas, a proper fleet of manned aircraft can do anything a UAV can do, a lot smarter, and can interpret live video in the aircraft as they're receiving it, and report back on the juicy bits. They can do this all over the world, not just in the Arctic, and they can track submarines (which are still out there - oh yes they are!), and if you give them a weapons bay, they can even shoot at stuff. However it is a national tragedy when one of them crashes.

15 So exactly how do UAVs help strengthen our claim to the arctic. If having automated unmanned surveillance helps sovereignty then we are far behind the US (and others) who have long surveilled by satellite. Sovereignty over the waterways depends on our claims to the islands, which is built by peoples lives, past and present. That the Northwest Passage is an internal waterway is obvious to those of us that live, work and hunt here, but it needs to be settled through international law before we try to "enforce" our claims.

16 Steve, I agree that if we're going to acquire UAVs that it should be all-Canadian technology. I'm not sure those American drones can withstand life above the Arctic Circle! But really, why all the paranoia? Who do we need to spy on in the Arctic? It's not Santa invading, is it? http://www.humblenarrator.com/2007/10/26/canadian-military-readies-for-imminent-north-pole-offensive-by-toy-militia/

17 ...i think sadly Canadians, me included, don't realize how BIG THE NORTH is. I just looked at a map of Canada and realized Baffin Island is as long as Alberta! Gadzooks! One little UAV won't be able to do it, let alone a fleet of them.

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1 ...The Martians are coming, the Martians are coming!!!

2 Saw it, low in the sky, over London ON! Think it had just taken off from the airport here.

3 Are you likely to see an E3 on the tarmac in London?

4 It is part of the new Alberta Air Force. We gotta keep an eye on you sneaky Easterners just to make sure you don't try to bring in NEP2. I mean we spy on our citizens who oppose Energy development. This is just the natural extension of that.

5 I saw it too sround 1 pm in Bramladesh.

6 First U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has a "gut feeling" about terror threats on the US mainland and then an E3 flies over T.O.? Coincidence? I think not! ;-)

7 Was panning out on the radar at work on Wednesday and saw several formations of oilers and fighters all heading up to an altitude reservation near Eilson AFB in Alaska. This was probably part of whatever exercise they were doing up there.

8 Probably just pilot training. The only guaranteed way to learn route trips is to do route trips - and the only good way to learn landing at strange airports, is to land at strange airports. They have a guiding philosophy in choosing what areas to train at - "what is their weather like when ours is lousy?" When pilots flight-plan, they are required to select an alternate - an airfield they can divert to, in case their destination is unuseable for any reason, such as weather or a crash on the ground that renders the runway unavailable - and they have to take the weather at the divert airport into account. So, weather systems being fairly predictable as to size and duration, they look for (and train at) nearby airports that usually have good weather when they are having bad weather. Then when they file their flight plans, they choose these airports as alternates, hopefully saving them having to carry a lot of (heavy) extra fuel so they can make-it to somewhere farther away. And why London instead of Toronto? Two reasons - first, landing fees become due when their wheels touch the ground, whether stopping or just doing a touch-and-go, and landing fees at Toronto are murderous - second, Toronto is really really busy, and the controllers really don't want extra traffic in the circuit. My 2 cents' worth - any takers?

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1 Perhaps it was intended to be a diversionary attack, with the more devastating attack to come later. I can imagine such an attack on JFK would occupy the time of the police and firefighters as another attack is occuring ... but this time it is a much larger attack such as a dirty radioactive bomb in Manhattan that would wipe out the financial district. If not then the JFK attack was to be just a test to see how the NY authorities responded and then plan around that.

2 When the fuel lines started to drain out, the void would indeed have been filled by air and the fire would indeed travel through the lines. Regardless of the potential= these asshats deserve to have their flesh peeled off 1 strip at a time.

3 When the fuel lines started to drain out, the void would indeed have been filled by air and the fire would indeed travel through the lines. I have a feeling that it would not be the case. Explosions have a strange way of snuffing out fires. The fuel incoming would probably continue to burn, but the downstream pipe might not. The pipeline experts seem to agree.

4 Stupid terrorists maybe?

5 Catching the creeps is the big news. They must continue to be vigilant, we must do likewise. Racial profiling must be going on and must continue to go on in our Western Democracies. Terrorism is being carried by one source, it flies the Banner of Islam. Radical they say, but what is "moderate", what is normal? We really can't know for sure. When the Left started worrying more about the terrorist Taliban prisoners and accusing our Military of enabling torture they lost all credibility as citizens of this Country let alone Members of Parliament.

6 Terrorism is being carried by one source, it flies the Banner of Islam Blaming everything on Islam is extremely simple-minded. The Catholic IRA was terrorizing civilians when Osama was still running around in short pants. The Hindu Tamil Tigers practically invented suicide bombing. In Russia there were heinous acts committed by Chechens but the apartment bombings were KGB. The terror bombings of WWII (and they were admitted to be terror bombings by their planners) were committed by Christian Europeans and Buddhist/Shinto Japanese. In the USA, you better watch those government employees if you want to be safe. The Oklahoma City bombing and the Beltway shootings were both committed by ex-soldiers trained in explosives and sniping, respectively. The anthrax attack and the recent TB scare were probably both cases of US government scientists run amok. The most recent terror plots all seem to be invented by the police for the purposes of making themselves look good. As for 9-11 ... watch Hannity get Hannitized by Ron Paul.

7 dhimmi apologist at 7:01pm: Tally your own body count here and then come back and remind us why it's "simple minded" believing Islam is a problem. Yes, for the record: ALL Muslims aren't terrorists. But 99.9% of all global terrorist incidents are committed by Muslims, in the name of Islam. Remember last year, when an islamowhacko crazy proclaimed Harper should be beheaded for his statements/actions on Islam? When polled, an incredible 12 percent of Canadian muslim males agreed with him. Let's see: 750,000 x 12% is roughly 90,000 (or take half of this, assuming the females aren't as loony as the males); so roughly the equivalent of a sizable Canadian town agreed that beheading the PM of this country was justifiable under the circumstances. You can either deal with this, or go back to sleep. mhb23re

8 this terror plot is not so far fetched..... They would have to mix a liquid chemical containing oxygen and reactive with the kerosene into the pipes turning a flammable substance into an explosive one. The devastation would be immense but I highly doubt they could pull this off because of the vast quantity of fuel and the equally vast quantity of oxygenate required to create it. They would also have to know the flow rate of the pipes and the volume they are dealing with. In the end, they would be found out long before it's ready to detonate by the contaminates found in the fuel at the other end. I'm just saying it is possible but highly unlikely it could be done.

9 "Lack of imagination" is still a problem when we consider the various terror plots that have been foliled and have yet to be. The JFK plotters were in an extremely early stage of their plans. And if any of our past experiences with spectacular attacks is any indication, these people are willing to pour years of planning and coordination into accomplishing their goals, making adjustments to their plan along the way. The point here shouldn't be whether or not they were capable of igniting JFK and a dozen NY neighborhoods when they were arrested, but that it IS possible and that they were determined to do it. As a New Yorker, I watched the towers fall with as much disbelief as everyone else. Before that day, no one thought such a thing possible. That's one of the reasons why it happened. Pooh-pooing any conspiratorial desire to kill civilians en masse is counterproductive to safeguarding our nations.

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1 Good argument in general, but I have a couple of addendums. Whether or not you worry about MIRVs and decoys depends on when and where you choose to intercept the missile. It doesn't leave the pad or silo with all three / five / ten warheads flying independently. After boost, the MIRV bus separates from the booster and maneuvers with a low-power propuslion system. Its goal is to impart slightly differing velocities to its departing, independently-targeted warheads (or decoys). They are released at intervals, not all at once -- unless they all share the same target. So up until the MIRV bus starts releasing the warheads you can still kill the MIRV bus and its payload as a single entity (no decoys) during boost and early ascent / early midcourse. Midcourse systems like AEGIS BMD are designed to kill the MIRV bus while it is still a single entity and before the warheads have separated. I understand the SM-3 missile that AEGIS BMD uses can even determine the bus location within the missile and target the bus specifically. I think AEGIS is the most practical of all the BMD systems given that its radar and regular (non-ballistic) missile-killing capabilities have been deplyoed with the US Navy for 20-odd years. It is a mature weapon system needing only improved missiles and radar signal processing tweaks. AEGIS' biggest downfall right now is that its missiles can take out SRBMs and IRBMs, but are not fast enough to deal with ICBMs right now. I imagine a few evolutions of the SM-3 (RIM-161) booster technology will bring them up to par soon. Terminal systems like THAAD target the warheads in the last (terminal) phase of flight, after MIRV separation from the booster. This is where you have to worry about killing decoys, although given that decoys need to share the same general trajectory characteristics, radar, thermal and visual signatures, it ought not to be too tough to figure out how to distinguish them from the herd.

2 Thanks for the clarification, Chris. If anything, the system seems even more complex than I imagined.

3 One telling thing about Suzuki's article is how short it is on offering alternatives to what he calls this "political problem".

4 One telling thing about Suzuki's article is how short it is on offering alternatives to what he calls this "political problem". If you want to precipitate a political solution, you can help my making the other guy know that he doesn't have a military solution that he can pursue, especially if that's the way he naturally leans.

5 The true weakness of missile defence is the suitcase/nutcase bomb and virtually undefended borders. That said, I wonder why an seemingly, intelligent person like Dr. Suzuki would want to be on the "It'll never fly, Orville." side.

6 Tom (good name eh)... "I wonder why an seemingly, intelligent person like Dr Suzuki..." It's called, "can't see for looking"

7 While Tom has a point about the invisibility of the suitcase/nutcase, I fail to see how BMD's failure to address it indicates a fundamental failure of the missile defence premise. Naval, land and air defense systems also do not provide adequate protection against suitcases and nutcases, but I do not see anybody suggesting that money spent on these essential military systems is equally in vain.

8 I've found this website quite informative with regard to BMD. http://www.missilethreat.com/

9 Chris - The true weaknesses of any defence are the things one can't defend against. I guess I was being ironic as in, the true weakness of karate is the sniper rifle. You're right, of course.

10 Actually, in a general sense, Suzuki is right. The age old maxim is that the 'sword' will always beat 'the shield'. No matter how thick you build a protection system something is eventually going to get through if you a) fire enough at it and b) constantly improve what you're firing. Shortbows became longbows when the knight's armour went from chain to plate. Long bows were replaced (or at least supplemented) by crossbows. Both were replaced by arbalests, which were replaced by arquebuises. They were replaced by muskets, muskets by rifles... etc... Eventually, no shield will ever suffice. The same principle holds true in anti-missile technology. The Aegis is considered probably the best missile defense naval vessel system in the world. It has missiles plus close in CIWS for protection, and a couple can protect an entire carrier group. However, there is a reason why the USN would never send a carrier group into the straits of Taiwan in a really hot period, and instead stays the other side of the island... If they were to go in between, their aegis fleet would be insufficient. The Chinese would fire tens of thousands of missiles, mostly 50's era silkworms, and by sheer numbers they'd overwhelm the Aegis' ability to respond. Sure, the Aegis would shoot down hundreds of missiles, but some would get through too. On a nuclear level, this kind of a response would only work for an enemy which has literally piles of money for spending on missiles. You'd need to launch hundreds of missiles to be effective. An Iran or North Korea would never be able to afford to beat an anti-missile system. China might though.

11 Scientific dilletante David Suzuki is a fraud who would be just another arm chair quarterback if it were not for our money and the CBC.

12 The US has specially equipped ships that are designed to bring down *big bullets* and as with North Korean test drives... they work. While watching events unfold in the ME, a light diversion... Were Federal governments quietly behind this due to the unemployment it would create? Why did GM kill the EV-1? TonyGuitar.blogspot.com

13 I couldn't have said it better myself, philanthropist.

14 One argument that always gets me annoyed is "it's like hitting a bullet with another bullet" Well, acutally, that's correct. Once a warhead sepearates from the missile, it has no propultion. It will fall on a course entirely predictable from a basic understanding of the laws of physics set forth by Sir Isaac Newton in the 17th century, along with some input of aerodynamics...having an interceptor hit it is difficult because of the speed and the limited time to compute the intercept, not for any fundamental physical reason.

15 Yeah Jeff, that's correct. And in fact, both the US and Russia hit a bullet (the ISS) with another bullet (either the shuttle or Soyuz) on a routine basis. If anything, rendezvous with the ISS is orders of magnitude more difficult than BMD, since ICBMs only travel at suborbital speeds, 1/5 the speed of an orbiting device.

16 The history of this world proves that the country with the greatest technology wins. When the Romans put blades on their chariots people that it was the end of the world because they could now take out the enemy by the hundreds. Tanks won the First World War. Missile defence or "Star Wars" as the loonie left call it has been around since the 50's when the first artificial satellite when up. Space has been militarised since then. Spy satellites, communications and radar satellites are all military weapons. A weapon that will not work in the current conflict in the middle east is a group hug or a few choruses of Kumbaya. They're old technologies. Smart weapons are what we need. Fight fir with fire. Standing up to bullies is the only way neutralise them. Surfaces to air and air to air missiles have been around for decades so we know that missile defence can work.

17 BMD can work for another reason. The same way the west beat the warsaw pact. If it is developed the other side now has to outspend it developing a sure fire missle that can make it to target. Nothing worse from my point of view then for some crack pot dicator to launch a ballistic missle at the west have it intercepted and stand there going ,, s**t this payback is going to hurt. and from what I can see the govt of NK and Iran dont have the know how or the cash to do it. Just looking at the coin from a different angle.

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1 I agree the terrorists aren't going to waste a nuke on an (attempted) EMP. They want burning buildings and a body count. 100 million computers get fried at once, they're replaced within a year. A million dead people in an uninhabitable radioactive crater? That's priceless

2 If you know your 10th value layer shielding equations you could create a "Pandora's Box" for delivery to the city of your choice. This would neatly avoid most detection methods. Iterate this several times and create a substrate of shielding to block detection of alpha, beta and gamma radiation. Then we can all talk to Jesus, personally, no translator required. Hans Bethe, Nobel Laureate in physics didn't hold much creedence in weaponizing space. But why listen to him, he only worked on the Manhattan Project. I did my lecture to pass my advanced theoretical physics classes on "Shock Waves". Want to be welcomed to HELL, I can show you how. Fortunately, my wife gave me my anti-psychotic pills this morning. With shocking regards I remain radiantly yours Hans Rupprecht

3 It's also part of the backstory of the T.V. show "Dark Angel", where terrorists detonated an EMP bomb over the states and it made America into a third world nation overnight. Bill Gertz must be a fan of Jessica Alba.

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A typical shipment might go from the enrichment plant at Portsmouth, Ohio to the conversion plant in Hematite Missouri then to Kansas City by truck where it would be flown to Los Angeles and then trucked down to the General Atomic plant in San Diego. The plans for the General Atomic plant are on file at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's reading room at 1717 H Street NW Washington. A Xerox machine is provided for the convenience of the public. If you can't get hold of any enriched uranium you'll have to settle for commercial grade (20 percent U-235). This can be stolen from university reactors of a type called TRIGA Mark II, where security is even more casual than at commercial plants. If stealing uranium seems too tacky, you can buy it. Unenriched uranium is available at any chemical supply house for $23 a pound. Commercial grade (3 to 20 percent enriched) is available for $40 a pound from Gulf Atomic. You'll have to enrich it further yourself. Quite frankly this can be something of a pain in the ass. You'll need to start with a little more than 50 pounds of commercial-grade uranium. (It's only 20 percent U-235 at best, and you need 10 pounds of U-235 so... ) But with a little kitchen-table chemistry you'll be able to convert the solid uranium oxide you've purchased into a liquid form. Once you've done that, you'll be able to separate the U-235 that you'll need from the U-238. First pour a few gallons of concentrated hydrofluoric acid into your uranium oxide, converting it to uranium tetrafluoride. (Safety note: Concentrated hydrofluoric acid is so corrosive that it will eat its way through glass, so store it only in plastic. Used 1-gallon plastic milk containers will do.) Now you have to convert your uranium tetrafluoride to uranium hexafluoride, the gaseous form of uranium, which is convenient for separating out the isotope U-235 from U-238. To get the hexafluoride form, bubble fluorine gas into your container of uranium tetrafluoride. Fluorine is available in pressurized tanks from chemical-supply firms. Be careful how you use it though because fluorine is several times more deadly than chlorine, the classic World War I poison gas. Chemists recommend that you carry out this step under a stove hood (the kind used to remove unpleasant cooking odors). If you've done your chemistry right you should now have a generous supply of uranium hexafluoride ready for enriching. In the old horse-and-buggy days of A-bomb manufacture the enrichment was carried out by passing the uranium hexafluoride through hundreds of miles of pipes, tubes, and membranes, until the U-235 was eventually separated from the U-238. This gaseous-diffusion process, as it was called is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. Gaseous-diffusion plants cover hundreds of acres and cost in the neighborhood of $2-billion each. So forget it. There are easier, and cheaper, ways to enrich your uranium. First transform the gas into a liquid by subjecting it to pressure. You can use a bicycle pump for this. Then make a simple home centrifuge. Fill a standard-size bucket one-quarter full of liquid uranium hexafluoride. Attach a six-foot rope to the bucket handle. Now swing the rope (and attached bucket) around your head as fast as possible. Keep this up for about 45 minutes. Slow down gradually, and very gently put the bucket on the floor. The U-235, which is lighter, will have risen to the top, where it can be skimmed off like cream. Repeat this step until you have the required 10 pounds of uranium. (Safety note: Don't put all your enriched uranium hexafluoride in one bucket. Use at least two or three buckets and keep them in separate corners of the room. This will prevent the premature build-up of a critical mass.) Now it's time to convert your enriched uranium back to metal form. This is easily enough accomplished by spooning several ladlefuls of calcium (available in tablet form from your drugstore) into each bucket of uranium. The calcium will react with the uranium hexafluoride to produce calcium fluoride, a colorless salt which can be easily be separated from your pure enriched uranium metal. (Safety note: Even though it is a salt, keep it away from your kitchen's spice rack.) A few precautions: While uranium is not dangerously radioactive in the amounts you'll be handling, if you plan to make more than one bomb it might be wise to wear gloves and a lead apron, the kind you can buy in dental supply stores. Plutonium is one of the most toxic substances known. If inhaled, a thousandth of a gram can cause massive fibrosis of the lungs, a painful way to go. Even a millionth of a gram in the lungs will cause cancer. If eaten, plutonium is metabolized like calcium. It goes straight to the bones where it gives out alpha particles preventing bone marrow from manufacturing red blood cells. The best way to avoid inhaling plutonium is to hold your breath while handling it. If this is too difficult, wear a mask. To avoid ingesting plutonium orally follow this simple rule: never make an A-bomb on an empty stomach. If you find yourself dozing off while you're working, or if you begin to glow in the dark, it might be wise to take a blood count. Prick your finger with a sterile pin, place a drop of blood on a microscope slide, cover it with a cover slip, and examine under a microscope. (Best results are obtained in the early morning.) When you get leukemia, immature cells are released into the bloodstream, and usually the number of white cells increases (though this increase might take almost 2 weeks). Red blood cells look kind of like donuts (without the hole), and are slightly smaller than the white cells, each of which has a nucleus. Immature red cells look similar to white cells (i.e.. slightly larger and have a nucleus). If you have more than about 1 white cell (including immature ones) to 400 red cells then start to worry. But, depending upon your plans for the eventual use of the bomb, a short life expectancy might not be a problem. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 2: Assembling the A-Bomb Now that you've acquired the enriched uranium, all that's left is to assemble your A-bomb. Go find a couple of stainless steel salad bowls. You also want to separate your 10 pounds of U-235 into two hunks. (Keep them apart!) The idea is to push each half your uranium into the inside of a bowl. Take one hunk of your uranium and beat it into the inside of the first bowl. Uranium is malleable, like gold, so you should have no trouble hammering it into the bowl to get a good fit. Take another five-pound hunk of uranium and fit it into a second stainless steel bowl. These two bowls of U-235 are the "subcritical masses" which, when brought together forcefully, will provide the critical mass that makes your A-bomb go. Keep them a respectful distance apart while working because you don't want them to "go critical" on you... At least not yet. Now hollow out the body of an old canister-type vacuum cleaner and place your two hemispherical bowls inside, open ends facing each other, no less than seven inches apart, using masking tape to set them up in position. The reason for the steel bowls and the vacuum cleaner, in case you're wondering, is that these help reflect the neutrons back into the uranium for a more efficient explosion. "A loose neutron is a useless neutron" as the A-bomb pioneers used to say. As far as the A-bomb goes, you're almost done. The final problem is to figure out how to get the two U-235 hemispheres to smash into each other with sufficient force to set off a truly effective fission reaction. Almost any type of explosive can be used to drive them together. Gunpowder, for example, is easily made at home from potassium nitrate, sulfur, and carbon. Or, you can get some blasting caps or TNT. (Buy them or steal them from a construction site.) Best of all is C4 plastic explosive. You can mold it around your bowls, and it's fairly safe to work with. (But, it might be wise to shape it around an extra salad bowl in another room, and THEN fit it to your uranium-packed bowls. This is particularly true in winter, when a stray static electrical charge might induce ignition in the C4. A responsible bomb maker considers it impolite to accidentally destroy more of the neighborhood than absolutely necessary.) Once the explosives are in place all you need to do is hook up a simple detonation device with a few batteries, a switch, and some wire. Remember though that it is essential that the two charges -- one on each side of the casing -- go off simultaneously. Now put the whole thing in the casing of an old Hoover vacuum cleaner and you're finished with this part of the process. The rest is easy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step 3: Make More A-Bombs Following the Directions Above You'll need a total of at least four. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Word to the Wise About Wastes After your A-bomb is completed you'll have a pile of moderately fatal radioactive wastes like U-238. These are not dangerous, but you do have to get rid of them. You can flush leftovers down the toilet. (Don't worry about polluting the ocean, there is already so much radioactive waste there, a few more bucketfuls won't make any waves whatsoever.) If you're the fastidious type -- the kind who never leaves gum under their seat at the movies -- you can seal the nasty stuff in coffee cans and bury it in the backyard, just like Uncle Sam does. If the neighbor kids have a habit of trampling the lawn, tell them to play over by the waste. You'll soon find that they're spending most of their time in bed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Going First Class If you're like us, you're feeling the economic pinch, and you'll want to make your bomb as inexpensively as possible, consonant of course with reasonable yield. The recipe we've given is for a budget-pleasing H-bomb, no frills, no flourishes; it's just a simple 5-megaton bomb, capable of wiping out the New York metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay area, or Boston. But don't forget, your H-bomb will only be as good as the A-bombs in it. If you want to spend a little more money you can punch-up your A-bomb considerably. Instead of centrifuging your uranium by hand, you can buy a commercial centrifuge. (Fisher Scientific sells one for about $1000.) You also might want to be fussier about your design. The Hiroshima bomb, a relatively crude one, only fissioned 1 percent of it's uranium and yielded only 13 kilotons. In order to fission more of the uranium, the force of your explosive "trigger" needs to be evenly diffused around the sphere; the same pressure has to be exerted on every point of the sphere simultaneously. (It was a technique for producing this sort of simultaneous detonation by fashioning the explosives into lenses that the government accused Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of trying to steal). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part 2: Putting Your H-Bomb Together The heart of the H-bomb is the fusion process. Several A-bombs are detonated in such a way as to create the extremely high temperature (100 million degrees C) necessary to fuse lithium deuteride (LiD) into helium. When the lithium nucleus slams into the deuterium nucleus, two helium nuclei are created, and if this happens to enough deuterium nuclei rapidly enough, the result is an enormous amount of energy: the energy of the H-bomb. You don't have to worry about stealing lithium deuteride, it can be purchased from any chemical-supply house. It costs $1000 a pound. If your budget won't allow it you can substitute lithium hydride at $40 a pound. You will need at least 100 pounds. It's a corrosive and toxic powder so be careful. Place the lithium deuteride or hydride in glass jars and surround it with four A-bombs in their casings. Attach them to the same detonator so that they will go off simultaneously. The container for the whole thing is no problem. They can be placed anywhere: Inside an old stereo console, a discarded refrigerator, etc... When the detonator sets off the four A-bombs all eight hemispheres of fissionable material will slam into each other at the same time creating four critical masses and four detonations. This will raise the temperature of the lithium deuteride to 100 million degrees C fast enough (a few billionths of a second) so that the lithium will not be blown all over the neighborhood before the nuclei have time to fuse. The result, at least 1000 times the punch of the puny A-bomb that leveled Hiroshima (20 million tons of TNT vs. 20 thousand tons.) Part 3: What to do With Your Bomb Now that you have a fully assembled H-bomb housed in an attractive console of your choice you may be wondering, "What should I do with it?" Every family will have to answer this question according to its own tastes and preferences, but you may want to explore some possibilities which have been successfully pioneered by the American government. 1. Sell Your Bomb and Make a Pile of Money In these days of rising inflation, increasing unemployment, and an uncertain economic outlook, few businesses make as much sense as weapons production. If your career forecast is cloudy, bomb sales may be the only sure way to avoid the humiliation of receiving welfare, or unemployment. Regardless of your present income level, a home H-bomb business can be an invaluable income supplement, and certainly a profitable alternative to selling Tupperware or pirated Girl Scout cookies. Unfortunately for the family bomb business, big government has already cornered a large part of the world market. But this does not mean that there is a shortage of potential customers. The raid on Entebee was the Waterloo of hijacking, and many nationalist groups are now on the alert for new means to get their message across. They'd jump at the chance to get hold of an H-bomb. Emerging nations which can't ante up enough rice or sugar to buy themselves a reactor from G.E. or Westinghouse are also shopping around. You may wonder about the ethics of selling to nations, or groups, whose goals you may disapprove of. But here again, take a tip from our government: forget ideology -- it's cash that counts. And remember, H-bomb sales have a way of escalating, almost like a chain reaction. Suppose you make a sale to South Yemen which you believe to be a Soviet puppet. Well within a few days some discrete inquiries from North Yemen and possibly the Saudis, the Egyptians and the Ethiopians as well can be expected. Similarly, a sale to the IRA will generate a sale to the Ulster government; and a sale to the Tanzanians will bring the Ugandans running, and so forth. It doesn't matter WHICH side you're on, only how many sides there are. Don't forget about the possibility of repeat sales to the same customer. As the experience of both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. has shown, each individual nation has a potentially infinite need for H-bombs. No customer -- no matter how small -- can ever have too many. 2. Use Your Bomb at Home Many families are attracted to the H-bomb simply as a "deterrent." A discrete sticker on the door or on the living room window saying "This Home Protected by H-bomb" will discourage IRS investigators, census takers, and Jehovah's Witnesses. You'll be surprised how fast the crime rate will go down and property values will go up. And once the news gets out that you are a home H-bomb owner you'll find that you have unexpected leverage in neighborhood disputes over everything from parking places and stereo noise levels to school tax rates. So relax and enjoy the pride and excitement of home H-bomb ownership! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is It For You? Let's be honest. The H-bomb isn't for everyone. Frankly there are people who can't handle it. They break out in hives at the very mention of mega-death, fallout, or radiation sickness. The following quiz will help you find out whether you have what it takes for home H-bomb ownership. If you can answer "yes" to six or more of these questions, then you're emotionally eligible to join the nuclear club. If not, a more conventional weapon may be more your cup of tea, try botulism-toxin, laser rays, or nerve gas. 1. I ignore the demands of others. 2. I subscribe to one or more of the following: Soldier of Fortune, Hustler, Popular Mechanics, Self. 3. Though I have many interesting acquaintances, I am my own best friend. 4. I know what to say after you say "Hello," but I am seldom interested in pursuing the conversation. 5. I have seen the movie "The Deer Hunter" more than once. 6. I know that everyone can be a winner if they want to, and I resent whiners. 7. I own one or more of the following: handgun, video game, trash compactor, snowmobile. 8. I am convinced that leukemia is psychosomatic. 9. I am aware that most vegetarians are sexually impotent. 10. I have read evidence that solar energy is a Communist conspiracy.

5 Just a question of exponential mathematics angry, but I believe that 1 megaton equals roughly 1 million tons of TNT not 2 billion tons (that would be 2 gigatons). Cheers Gerry

6 I meant to put "pounds". Fixed it. Thanks.

7 Did anybody actually read that build-a-bomb series? I for one don't need it, since I've managed to develope a software-only nuclear weapon (written in Basic) I can deliver anywhere I want. The problem these days is finding somebody who knows how to boot to a dos prompt to type in "nukeme". Haven't gotten past that part yet.

8 How to build a bomb is credited to the following web page: http://www.worldnewsstand.net/4fun/bigbang.htm

9 If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. Hans A. Bethe, Chief of Theoretical Physics, Manhattan Project For fun and games with nukes and understanding the Cold War try this web link http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/index.html

10 http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/index.html From the above link we have the following: Could al-Qaeda go Nuclear? By Carey Sublette Last changed 18 May 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since the Eleventh of September 2001, if not before, the possibility that Islamic terrorist groups, whose fondest dream is slaughtering as many civilians as possible, might obtain nuclear weapons has been nearly anyone's worst nightmare. How likely is this possibility? What evidence is there that this goal has been seriously pursued, and how close might they have come to it? While this possibility has been speculated on since at least the 1970s, it acquired special interest in 1998, when an Arabic language news story alleged that Osama bin Laden has actually obtained complete nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. This story was published in Al-Watan Al-'Arabi on 13 Nov 1998. Nearly all of the claims that have circulated since then about bin Laden's nuclear capabilities are derived directly from this report. The unsourced claims made in Al-Watan Al-'Arabi did not attract immediate attention in the West. It was not until about a year later that stories began surfacing in English repeating these assertions. For example, a story in the 25 October 1999 issue of the Jerusalem Report (quoted in Bin Laden has several Nuclear Suitcases) asserted that Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization al Qaeda has acquired a number of these devices in exchange for a "$30 million in cash and two tons of Afghan heroin", a claim taken directly from Al-Watan Al-'Arabi. The Jerusalem Report story provided as the source of this allegation Yossef Bodansky, an apparently a free-lance analyst with connections to Israeli intelligence and conservative Republican think tanks. Bodansky's source for this information was not disclosed. NB: In evaluating this claim it would be well to recall that Libya has reportedly offered over a billion dollars for a single nuclear weapon, but appears to have been unsuccessful in obtaining one; and that Russia has been the victim of terror bombings killing hundreds of civilians in recent years with the suspicion of responsibility pointing at muslim groups allied with bin Laden. Such devices in the hands of Islamic terrorist groups would be the greatest threat to Russia's security today, and it would go to almost any length to prevent it. The most detailed and persuasive account of Osama bin Laden's interest (if not capability) in nuclear weapons is provided by the testimony of Jamal Ahmad al-Fadl, a native of Sudan and ex-bin Laden associate, in the trial of the earlier World Trade Center bombing: United States of America v. Usama bin Laden, et al. (S(7) 98 Cr. 1023) prosecuted February-July 2001 in United States District Court (transcripts are on-line at http://cryptome.org/usa-v-ubl-dt.htm ). At the trial al-Fadl recounted in detail his extensive but unsuccessful efforts to obtain enriched uranium for al Qaeda through contacts in Khartoum, Sudan during 1993-94 and afterward. At one point a fee of $1.5 million was discussed, and plans were made to test uranium samples to see if they could be used to build a bomb (this testimony was delivered mostly during Day 3 and Day 4 of the trial. It has been 27 years now since John McPhee's The Curve of Binding Energy brought it to public attention that with sufficient fissile material - highly enriched uranium or plutonium - there are no substantial technical obstacles for a small group to manufacture a simple but highly destructive nuclear bomb. The US itself demonstrated in the Nth Country Experiment that the technical barrier to designing a nuclear device is quite low. This study is detailed in the classified report UCRL-50248, "Summary Report of the NTH Country Experiment," W. J. Frank, ed., March 1967, but a declassified version of it is on-line at the National Security Archive. The experiment was conducted to see how much effort was actually required to develop a viable fission weapon design starting from nothing. Three newly graduated physics students were given the task of developing a detailed weapon design using only public domain information. The project reached a successful conclusion, that is, they did develop a viable design after expending only three man-years of effort over two and a half calendar years. In the years since, much more information has entered the public domain so that the level of effort required has obviously dropped further. There is no doubt that if a group like al Qaeda were to obtain sufficient fissile material - no more than 12 kg of plutonium, or 50 kg of highly enriched uranium, and quite possibly less, a highly destructive bomb could be constructed. It is very doubtful that a simple nuclear device developed by a small group could qualify as a "suitcase bomb", but most any ordinary vehicle would suffice for transportation. Pleasant dreams.

1 The anniversary of Hiroshima's bombing is just another excuse for the media to drum up hate against america.

2 Paul Morrison You are an idiot. Hiroshima is an excuse for anti-Americanism? Not everyone is cynical and narcisstic as you are, perhaps the anniversary of Hiroshima is less about the US and more about the anniversary of Hiroshima. Loser.

3 While I wouldn't be as blunt as Bruce, I agree that you need to look at it from a different perspective Paul. Hiroshima is a tragic moment in world history, let alone US history. The fact that things got to that point where a country felt it necessary to psychologically decimate another country they were at war with by obliterating the populations of two cities is enough to give any sane person a moment of pause. And that is what these anniversaries are for: to make us ask whether it is worth it. I am not anti-American in any way. I love the USA and am not ashamed to say it. However, I am staunchly anti-nuke. I believe it is an important scientific advancement, but its use in war has perverted its usefulness. I would hope more people would think about the Pandora's box of circumstance that the nuclear age has created. Have we forgotten about Iran? North Korea? Iraq at one time? Nuclear weapons have not made the world safer, they have made this world a more imbalanced place to live. And if you think that the US will never have one of its cities nuked, you are sorely mistaken. It's a matter of time now that terrorists want to do it. As a sidenote, if any of you have never seen the movie Trinity and Beyond: the Atomic Bomb Movie, you really should check it out. It is one of the most amazing documentaries I have ever seen, outlining the developement of nuclear weapons from the first kilotonne detonation of TNT, to the Trinity tests, through to that atmospheric EMP tests, all the way up to the Monster-Bombs. The footage is breathtaking, awe-inspiring, and down right terrifying at times. Trust me, seeing a 10 Kilotonne explosion beside a 1 Megatonne explosion is not nearly as illunating as when you see every step of the way... ony then do you realize exactly how far we've come and why we need to stop. And William Shatner does a damn fine job narrating. :-)

4 If you think that remembering on eof the most significant events in human history is America bashing, it probably says something about your feeling of the event. I once had a discussion with someone on the necessity for the bombing, I said how it was necessary to avoid the Japanese invasion. Then later on, I looked it up on google, and found an amazingly in-depth article here: http://www.doug-long.com/ Apparently, the situation was not so simple. As with history, no one can say absolutely how something could have turned out IF something was done differently.

5 Angry, Just a quibble--your post is very accurate indeed on the technology--but the "Gadget" at Trinity was a device not a weaponized bomb that could actually be dropped (as the picture shows). So I fear the media are technically correct in calling "Little Boy" the first atomic "bomb". Though I am sure most of them are not aware why. Mark Ottawa

6 "Just a quibble--your post is very accurate indeed on the technology--but the 'Gadget' at Trinity was a device not a weaponized bomb that could actually be dropped (as the picture shows)." I actually went back and forth on this point. I recognized the distinction as well. But everywhere I looked, the Gadget was refered to as a bomb or test bomb. The definition of a bomb is "a device designed to create high temperatures and pressures in order to cause destruction..." and so on and so forth. Maybe the Gadget couldn't be dropped from a plane, but it could have been put on a ship and sailed into a harbour. As a weapon it met the criteria, and so I decided not to scrap the article.

7 You really don't have to go back 60 years to find a reason to dislike the USA. One would only have to go back 60 days .... hours?...... min.s? USA OUT OF EVERYWHERE!!!!!!

8 Ok, to the namecallers... IF it's NOT about bashing American's, then why do we not remember the anniversary of the Rape of Nanking? It killed more people. How about the Baatan Death March? The japanese use Hiroshima, every single year, as a way of saying... 'look at us peaceful people, we didn't deserve what the US gave us.' That's a load of BS. I have some grave misgivings about the us of atomic warfare, but I'm not so stupid as to ignore the fact that the left, worldwide, uses the anniversary of Hiroshima to attack the US.

9 For real historical background on Hiroshima, I recommend this excellent article based on the now available SIGINT evidence that decisively refutes the revisionists/critics from the 1960s on: "Why Truman Dropped the Bomb" http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/ articles/000/000/005/894mnyyl.asp?pg=1 (The Toronto Star published an abbreviated version Aug. 5: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1123192211805) I imagine much of the article is based on this superb publication by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence, "The Final Months of the War With Japan: Signals Intelligence, U.S. Invasion Planning, and the A-Bomb Decision", by Douglas J. MacEachin: http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/ 4253605299/csi9810001.html Mark Ottawa

10 Surecure: Not actually dropping the bombs on Japan would have done little to slow the further development of nuclear weapons. Stalin, privy through espionage to the Manhattan Project, was determined to get his own bombs. And I shudder to think what would have happened had the US slowed its bomb programs and the Soviets developed a decisive advantage. Also, the terrible loss of life and damage the use of bombs caused probably has gone a long way toward deterring use of nuclear (and thermonuclear) weapons ever since. Mark Ottawa

11 Angry is correct in calling the device in the Trinity tests a bomb. Fat Man and Little Boy were the first "aerial bombs" but they weren't the first bombs. As well, they were as much devices as the original test device. Let's remember that bombs come in many forms. Remember London and Madrid? Those were bombs. Mark: I wasn't suggesting that NOT dropping the bomb would have slowed the developement of nuclear weapons. I'm simply stating that if we were to forget what happened in Hiroshima, then we wouldn't have the deterrence towards using nuclear weapons that you speak of. That's the whole point of the Hiroshima anniversary: to remind us why we should oppose the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons.

12 I don't see the Japanese as using the anniversary to do any America-bashing. If anything, I see them as remembering the pain of war, and their own history in that regard. I have never heard Official Japan being critical of America's efforts as the World's Policeman. I have heard them express gratitude for America's efforts vis a vis North Korea. Japan is a great friend to America. Most would give credit to the Japanese people for what they have learned from the events of the past. As for the terminology, it was certainly the first time such atomic technology had been used in "anger", and it is the lessons from that episode which we are called to remember.

13 The first use of an atomic bomb as a weapon is of huge historical significance, not just because of the large number of casualties, but because of the turning point it represents. It's arguable that because of atomic weapons, and its' public 'demonstration' at Hiroshima, that the Cold War took place. Without the threat of all-out thermo-nuclear war, what would have kept the two super powers from duking it out? Don't be so defensive! Pointing out the anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon is NOT an attack on the US, unless they say something derogatory about the US.

14 Lets not forget the thousand of Allied prisoners of war in Japan that the Japanese threatened to slaughter had their been a lans invasion, not to mention the dead from the land invasion itself. Hard to figure out the total death to the Allies as the "dead" would not come home to get married, have children Thousands of children that were born from these returnees wold not have happened. Not to mention the Japanese women that would not have married an Allied, as many of them did after the peace. Can't marry a dead man. I was in my third year in the Canadian Merchant Navy the year it was dropped, and the relief was indescribable. If you can imagine the same relief that would be felt if the war with the headchoppers were suddenly brought to an end. Which unfortunatley will take a few more years, but that would be the feeling. Too many of our guys names on the "killed in action" list or " prisoners of war list", so the people danced in the streets as I am sure you all have seen in the documentairies. However I would like to see the documentaries that are available showing the death and pain and torture that the troops in the first world war went through when they became victims of the first time Weapons of Mass Destruction...Mustard Gas, was used against them Thousand of Canadians were killed or maimed for life on this barbarac act, and if the events of Japan is any sign of things to come it could be another GAS or GERM attack in the future, we have to be shown the plight of these first world war heros that were gassed, one thing to talk about war, but pictures "are worth a thousand words" and the pictures would do more to waking up the pacifists and peace nazi's than all the Atom bombs that were dropped on Japan. And now yes, Japan is now our staunched ally over there, and thank God for it, they are going to help us keep a check on the madmen of China. Stephen Parksville BC ww 2 vet.

15 The Japanese have not learned ANYTHING from World war 2. Most japanese under 30 think the US started the war, they think Japan's part was entirely honourable, and they think the US was barbaric for using the atomic bomb. They've never heard of the rape of Nanking or the baatan death march, and their textbooks and media all ensure that they never will. Second, the peacenazis made it very clear in the coverage of the anniversary that the US was evil for using the bomb. I can tell you as a historian that the issue is still up for debate, but that's no excuse for invoking hatred every august.

16 It's Japan who attacked first. The USA was not even at war at that time, not at war with Japan, not even at war with Hitler! Japan had a pact with Hitler to " take care " of the USA in that part of the world. After starting this war against the USA, the Japanese then realised they had awakened a " sleeping giant". ( At the begining of WWII, the USA was far from being the number one military power in the world, a fact conveniently never mentionned... ) The number of people killed by the "bomb" is aproximately the same as the number of people who would have died anyway in a couple of weeks from conventional bombs being dropped from airplanes on Japan. But it would have taken months and months of conventional bombing to convince Japan to stop fighting a war they could not win. Without the dropping of the "bomb", overtime , MORE Japanese would have died and more americans would have died too. (And my dear lefty-greenies; more petrol would have been burned, more precious resources such as wood would have been used and more land and forests and tiny animals and historical places would have been destroyed over time. Ever thougth of that ? ) If you know the facts of what was going on at that time and you can operate a pocket calculator, you know more people would have died. Was it better to fight for months or years and suffer enormous lost on both, their side and ours like on the shores of France and in Germany? The USA didn't start WWII, they just did what they could to put an end to this pure insanity that lasted 6 long years and killed tens of millions of people; 6 million Jews, 9 million Russians...need I go on? Roughly 150,000 people around the world were dying EVERY week during that war. It had to stop.

17 Actually, Friend of the USA does make an interesting point. If you go to wikipedia's page on World War II casualties, with a little simple math it can be determined that approximately 15,000 Japanese civilians were dying every week of the war between Japan and the US. In truth, this figure is inaccurately low as the Japanese homeland was for the most part untouchable until near the very end of the war when the US captured islands like Okinawa and were able to launch attacks on the Japanese islands. Chances are, at the time of the A-bombings the civilians losses per week would have been much higher. Even if we use the lower number, it can be determined that the number of people who died in the two A-bomb attacks would have been the same as those who died in only 2 more months of war. That page on casualties can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties While I still think that we must think about what consequences of opening the nuclear age, there is a good argument for the use of the bomb at that time. Perhaps it saved more lives in the long run than it ended. As with all things in life, things are not easily explained away.

18 Justification for Hiroshima etc cannot be made. Japan attacked MILITARY INSTALLATIONS like Pearl Harbour--America bombed civilians. That is the crime committed by America.

19 George: In case you don't know the history, almost all states capable of doing so bombed civilians during WW II: Germany, UK, US, Canada, Japan. Mark Ottawa

20 The city of Hiroshima - contained the 2nd Army Headquarters, which commanded the defense of all of southern Japan. The city was a communications center, a storage point, and an assembly area for troops. Stop re-writing history.

21 George, you don't know what you're talking about. Ever heard of the 'Rape of Nanking'? 369 000 people killed. Thousands of young chinese girls raped and then mutilated, and those numbers only include CONFIRMED dead. The Japanese did their best to cover it up, so the real numbers are probably significantly higher. Ever heard of the Baatan death march? The japanese forced marched POW's over a hundred miles, without food or water and mercilessly slaughtered any who began to slow because of deprivation. Close to 30 000 died. Ever heard of 'Comfort Women'? hundreds of thousands of young Korean and Chinese women, abducted from their families and held as sex slaves by Japanese troops? Ever heard of Unit 516? It was a top-secret Japanese unit which deployed chemical weapons on several occaisons against civillian populations, including Nanking. Ever heard of unit 731? It was a top-secret medical research unit that employed vivisection (cutting living people open to see what happened), biological warfare testing on civillians and POW's, more than 10 000 people were killed in this manner, most of them cut open and dissected while still alive. The Japanese were only a couple of steps behind Hitler on the atrocities scale.

22 A wonderful source: "The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 162, August 5, 2005" http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm Regards, Mark Ottawa

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Fletcher, 28, Army Private 1st Class, Nov 13, 2003 Joseph Minucci II, 23, Army Sergeant, Nov 13, 2003 Irving Medina, 22, Army Specialist, Nov 14, 2003 Michael D. Acklin II, 25, Army Sergeant, Nov 15, 2003 Ryan T. Baker, 24, Army Specialist, Nov 15, 2003 Jeremiah J. DiGiovanni, 21, Army Specialist, Nov 15, 2003 William D. Dusenbery, 30, Army Specialist, Nov 15, 2003 Richard W. Hafer, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Nov 15, 2003 Warren S. Hansen, 36, Army Sergeant, Nov 15, 2003 Sheldon R. Hawk Eagle, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Nov 15, 2003 Timothy L. Hayslett, 26, Army Sergeant, Nov 15, 2003 Damian L. Heidelberg, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Nov 15, 2003 Erik C. Kesterson, 29, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Nov 15, 2003 Pierre E. Piche, 29, Army Captain, Nov 15, 2003 John W. Russell, 26, Army Sergeant, Nov 15, 2003 Scott A. Saboe, 33, Army Chief Warrant Officer (CW2), Nov 15, 2003 John R. Sullivan, 26, Army Specialist, Nov 15, 2003 Eugene A. Uhl III, 21, Army Specialist, Nov 15, 2003 Joey D. Whitener, 19, Army Private 1st Class, Nov 15, 2003 Jeremy L. Wolfe, 27, Army 2nd Lieutenant, Nov 15, 2003 Kelly Bolor, 37, Army Reserve Sergeant 1st Class, Nov 15, 2003 Alexander S. Coulter, 35, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Nov 17, 2003 Nathan S. Dalley, 27, Army Captain, Nov 17, 2003 Dale A. Panchot, 26, Army Staff Sergeant, Nov 17, 2003 James A. Shull, 32, Army Captain, Nov 17, 2003 Joseph L. Lister, 22, Army Specialist, Nov 20, 2003 Scott Matthew Tyrrell, 21, Army Private, Nov 20, 2003 George A. Wood, 33, Army Captain, Nov 20, 2003 Gary B. Coleman, 24, Army Corporal, Nov 21, 2003 Damian S. Bushart, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Nov 22, 2003 Robert D. Roberts, 21, Army Specialist, Nov 22, 2003 Eddie E. Menyweather, 35, Army Staff Sergeant, Nov 23, 2003 Christopher G. Nason, 39, Army Chief Warrant Officer (CW2), Nov 23, 2003 Rel A. Ravago IV, 21, Army Specialist, Nov 23, 2003 Jerry L. Wilson, 45, Army Command Sergeant Major, Nov 23, 2003 Darrell L. Smith, 28, Army National Guard Corporal, Nov 23, 2003 David J. Goldberg, 20, Army Reserve Specialist, Nov 26, 2003 Thomas J. Sweet II, 23, Army Specialist, Nov 27, 2003 Ariel Rico, 25, Army Sergeant, Nov 28, 2003 Stephen A. Bertolino, 40, Army Staff Sergeant, Nov 29, 2003 Aaron J. Sissel, 22, Army National Guard Specialist, Nov 29, 2003 Uday Singh, 21, Army Specialist, Dec 01, 2003 Clarence E. Boone, 50, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Dec 02, 2003 Ryan C. Young, 21, Army Sergeant, Dec 02, 2003 Raphael S. Davis, 24, Army National Guard Specialist, Dec 02, 2003 Arron R. Clark, 20, Army Specialist, Dec 05, 2003 Ray J. Hutchinson, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Dec 07, 2003 Joseph M. Blickenstaff, 23, Army Specialist, Dec 08, 2003 Steven H. Bridges, 33, Army Staff Sergeant, Dec 08, 2003 Christopher Jude Rivera Wesley, 26, Army Specialist, Dec 08, 2003 Jason G. Wright, 19, Army Private 1st Class, Dec 08, 2003 Richard A. Burdick, 24, Army Staff Sergeant, Dec 10, 2003 Jerrick M. Petty, 25, Army Private 1st Class, Dec 10, 2003 Todd M. Bates, 20, Army National Guard Specialist, Dec 10, 2003 Aaron T. Reese, 31, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, Dec 10, 2003 Marshall L. Edgerton, 27, Army Specialist, Dec 11, 2003 Jarrod W. Black, 26, Army Sergeant, Dec 12, 2003 Jeffrey F. Braun, 19, Army Private 1st Class, Dec 12, 2003 Rian C. Ferguson, 22, Army Specialist, Dec 14, 2003 Kimberly A. Voelz, 27, Army Staff Sergeant, Dec 14, 2003 Kenneth C. Souslin, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Dec 15, 2003 Nathan W. Nakis, 19, Army National Guard Specialist, Dec 15, 2003 Christopher J. Holland, 26, Army Specialist, Dec 17, 2003 Glenn R. Allison, 24, Army Sergeant, Dec 18, 2003 Charles E. Bush Jr., 43, Army Reserve Private 1st Class, Dec 19, 2003 Stuart W. Moore, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Dec 22, 2003 Edward M. Saltz, 27, Army Reserve 1st Lieutenant, Dec 22, 2003 Benjamin W. Biskie, 27, Army Sergeant, Dec 24, 2003 Eric F. Cooke, 43, Army Command Sergeant Major, Dec 24, 2003 Christopher F. Soelzer, 26, Army Captain, Dec 24, 2003 Christopher J. Splinter, 43, Army Major, Dec 24, 2003 Michael E. Yashinski, 24, Army Sergeant, Dec 24, 2003 Thomas W. Christensen, 42, Army Reserve Staff Sergeant, Dec 25, 2003 Stephen C. Hattamer, 43, Army Reserve Staff Sergeant, Dec 25, 2003 Charles G. Haight, 23, Army Specialist, Dec 26, 2003 Michael G. Mihalakis, 18, Army National Guard Specialist, Dec 26, 2003 Michael J. Sutter, 28, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, Dec 26, 2003 Ernesto M. Blanco, 28, Army Captain, Dec 28, 2003 Rey D. Cuervo, 24, Army Private, Dec 28, 2003 Curt E. Jordan Jr., 25, Army Sergeant, Dec 28, 2003 Justin W. Pollard, 21, Army Specialist, Dec 30, 2003 Solomon C. "Kelly" Bangayan, 24, Army Specialist, Jan 02, 2004 Dennis A. Corral, 33, Army Sergeant, Jan 02, 2004 Kimberly N. Hampton, 27, Army Captain, Jan 02, 2004 Eric Thomas Paliwoda, 28, Army Captain, Jan 02, 2004 Marc S. Seiden, 26, Army Specialist, Jan 02, 2004 Luke P. Frist, 20, Army Reserve Specialist, Jan 05, 2004 Jesse D. Mizener, 24, Army Private 1st Class, Jan 07, 2004 Craig Davis, 37, Army Staff Sergeant, Jan 08, 2004 Michael A. Diraimondo, 22, Army Specialist, Jan 08, 2004 Christopher A. Golby, 26, Army Specialist, Jan 08, 2004 Gregory B. Hicks, 35, Army Sergeant 1st Class, Jan 08, 2004 Philip A. Johnson Jr., 31, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Jan 08, 2004 Nathaniel H. Johnson, 22, Army Specialist, Jan 08, 2004 Ian D. Manuel, 23, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Jan 08, 2004 Jeffrey C. Walker, 33, Army Sergeant, Jan 08, 2004 Aaron A. Weaver, 32, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Jan 08, 2004 Ricky L. Crockett, 37, Army Staff Sergeant, Jan 12, 2004 Keicia M. Hines, 27, Army Sergeant, Jan 13, 2004 Roland L. Castro, 26, Army Staff Sergeant, Jan 16, 2004 Cody J. Orr, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Jan 17, 2004 Larry E. Polley Jr., 20, Army Specialist, Jan 17, 2004 Edmond Lee Randle Jr., 26, Army Sergeant, Jan 17, 2004 Kelly L. Hornbeck, 36, Army Master Sergeant, Jan 18, 2004 Gabriel T. Palacios, 22, Army Specialist, Jan 21, 2004 James D. Parker, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Jan 21, 2004 Michael T. Blaise, 29, Army Chief Warrant Officer (CW2), Jan 23, 2004 Brian D. Hazelgrove, 29, Army Chief Warrant Officer (CW2), Jan 23, 2004 Jason K. Chappell, 22, Army Specialist, Jan 24, 2004 Randy S. Rosenberg, 23, Army Sergeant, Jan 24, 2004 William R. Sturges Jr., 24, Army Specialist, Jan 24, 2004 Kenneth W. Hendrickson, 41, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, Jan 24, 2004 Keith L. Smette, 25, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jan 24, 2004 Christopher Bunda, 29, Army Staff Sergeant, Jan 25, 2004 Ervin Dervishi, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Jan 25, 2004 Patrick D. Dorff, 32, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Jan 25, 2004 Adam G. Mooney, 28, Army 1st Lieutenant, Jan 25, 2004 Matthew J. August, 28, Army Captain, Jan 27, 2004 James T. Hoffman, 41, Army Sergeant 1st Class, Jan 27, 2004 Luke S. James, 24, Army 2nd Lieutenant, Jan 27, 2004 Lester O. Kinney II, 27, Army Staff Sergeant, Jan 27, 2004 Travis A. Moothart, 23, Army Sergeant, Jan 27, 2004 Cory R. Mracek, 26, Army Sergeant, Jan 27, 2004 Sean G. Landrus, 31, Army Staff Sergeant, Jan 29, 2004 Luis A. Moreno, 19, Army Private 1st Class, Jan 29, 2004 Juan C. Cabralbanuelos, 25, Army Corporal, Jan 31, 2004 Holly J. McGeogh, 19, Army Private 1st Class, Jan 31, 2004 Eliu A. Miersandoval, 27, Army Sergeant, Jan 31, 2004 Armando Soriano, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Feb 01, 2004 Roger C. Turner Jr., 37, Army Staff Sergeant, Feb 01, 2004 Seth J. Dvorin, 24, Army 2nd Lieutenant, Feb 03, 2004 Joshua L. Knowles, 23, Army National Guard Specialist, Feb 05, 2004 Richard P. Ramey, 27, Army Staff Sergeant, Feb 08, 2004 Thomas D. Robbins, 27, Army Sergeant, Feb 09, 2004 Elijah Tai Wah Wong, 42, Army National Guard Sergeant, Feb 09, 2004 Jude C. Mariano, 39, Air Force Master Sergeant, Feb 10, 2004 William C. Ramirez, 19, Army Private 1st Class, Feb 11, 2004 Patrick S. Tainsh, 33, Army Sergeant, Feb 11, 2004 Eric U. Ramirez, 31, Army National Guard Specialist, Feb 12, 2004 Bryan N. Spry, 19, Army Private, Feb 14, 2004 Michael M. Merila, 23, Army Specialist, Feb 16, 2004 Christopher M. Taylor, 25, Army National Guard Specialist, Feb 16, 2004 Nichole M. Frye, 19, Army Reserve Private 1st Class, Feb 16, 2004 Jeffrey C. Graham, 24, Army 2nd Lieutenant, Feb 19, 2004 Roger G. Ling, 20, Army Specialist, Feb 19, 2004 Henry A. Bacon, 45, Army Sergeant 1st Class, Feb 20, 2004 Matthew C. Laskowski, 32, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Feb 25, 2004 Stephen M. Wells, 29, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Feb 25, 2004 Michael R. Woodliff, 22, Army Specialist, Mar 02, 2004 Michael J. Gray, 32, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class, Mar 05, 2004 Gussie M. Jones, 41, Army Captain, Mar 07, 2004 Matthew G. Milczark, 18, Marine Private 1st Class, Mar 08, 2004 Edward W. Brabazon, 20, Army Specialist, Mar 09, 2004 Richard S. Gottfried, 42, Army Sergeant 1st Class, Mar 09, 2004 Fern L. Holland, 33, Dept. of the Army Civilian, Mar 09, 2004 Robert J. Zangas, 44, Dept. of the Army Civilian, Mar 09, 2004 Bert Edward Hoyer, 23, Army Reserve Private 1st Class, Mar 10, 2004 Joe L. Dunigan Jr., 37, Army Staff Sergeant, Mar 11, 2004 Christopher K. Hill, 26, Army Specialist, Mar 11, 2004 Joel K. Brattain, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Mar 13, 2004 Clint D. Ferrin, 31, Army Sergeant 1st Class, Mar 13, 2004 Jason C. Ford, 21, Army Specialist, Mar 13, 2004 John F. "Hans" Kurth, 31, Army Captain, Mar 13, 2004 Daniel J. Londono, 22, Army Sergeant, Mar 13, 2004 Jocelyn "Joce" L. Carrasquillo, 28, Army National Guard Specialist, Mar 14, 2004 William J. Normandy, 42, Army National Guard Sergeant, Mar 14, 2004 Michael R. Adams, 24, Army 1st Lieutenant, Mar 16, 2004 Thomas R. Thigpen Sr., 52, Army National Guard Master Sergeant, Mar 16, 2004 Tracy L. Laramore, 30, Army Specialist, Mar 17, 2004 Ivory L. Phipps, 44, Army National Guard Sergeant, Mar 17, 2004 Ernest Harold Sutphin, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Mar 18, 2004 Doron Chan, 20, Army Reserve Specialist, Mar 18, 2004 Andrew D. Brownfield, 24, Marine Corporal, Mar 18, 2004 Ricky A. Morris Jr., 20, Marine Private 1st Class, Mar 18, 2004 Brandon C. Smith, 20, Marine Private 1st Class, Mar 18, 2004 Jason C. Ludlam, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Mar 19, 2004 Clint Richard "Bones" Matthews, 31, Army Specialist, Mar 19, 2004 David M. Vicente, 25, Marine Corporal, Mar 19, 2004 Matthew J. Sandri, 24, Army Specialist, Mar 20, 2004 Mark D. Taylor, 41, Army Major, Mar 20, 2004 Michael W. Vega, 41, Army National Guard 1st Lieutenant, Mar 20, 2004 Christopher E. Hudson, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Mar 21, 2004 Dustin L. Kreider, 19, Army Private, Mar 21, 2004 Bruce Miller Jr., 23, Army Private 1st Class, Mar 22, 2004 Andrew S. Dang, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Mar 22, 2004 Wentz Jerome Henry Shanaberger III, 33, Army Staff Sergeant, Mar 24, 2004 Adam D. Froehlich, 21, Army Specialist, Mar 25, 2004 Jeffrey C. Burgess, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Mar 25, 2004 James A. Casper, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Mar 25, 2004 Leroy Sandoval Jr., 21, Marine Private 1st Class, Mar 26, 2004 Timothy Toney, 37, Marine Master Sergeant, Mar 27, 2004 Sean M. Schneider, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Mar 29, 2004 Jeremiah J. Holmes, 27, Army National Guard Specialist, Mar 29, 2004 Richard L. Ferguson, 45, Army Master Sergeant, Mar 30, 2004 William J. Wiscowiche, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Mar 30, 2004 Brandon L. Davis, 20, Army Private, Mar 31, 2004 Doyle M. Hufstedler, 25, Army 1st Lieutenant, Mar 31, 2004 Michael G. Karr Jr., 23, Army Specialist, Mar 31, 2004 Sean R. Mitchell, 24, Army Specialist, Mar 31, 2004 Cleston C. Raney, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Mar 31, 2004 Dustin M. Sekula, 18, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 01, 2004 William R. Strange, 19, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 02, 2004 Geoffrey S. Morris, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 03, 2004 John D. Amos II, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 04, 2004 Robert R. Arsiaga, 25, Army Specialist, Apr 04, 2004 Ahmed Akil "Mel" Cason, 24, Army Specialist, Apr 04, 2004 Yihiyh L. Chen, 31, Army Sergeant, Apr 04, 2004 Israel Garza, 25, Army Specialist, Apr 04, 2004 Stephen D. "Dusty" Hiller, 25, Army Specialist, Apr 04, 2004 Forest Joseph Jostes, 22, Army Corporal, Apr 04, 2004 Michael W. Mitchell, 25, Army Sergeant, Apr 04, 2004 Philip G. Rogers, 23, Army Specialist, Apr 04, 2004 Casey Sheehan, 24, Army Specialist, Apr 04, 2004 Aric J. Barr, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 04, 2004 Tyler R. Fey, 22, Marine Corporal, Apr 04, 2004 Scott Quentin Larson Jr., 22, Army Specialist, Apr 05, 2004 David M. McKeever, 25, Army Sergeant, Apr 05, 2004 Shane Lee Goldman, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 05, 2004 Deryk L. Hallal, 24, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 05, 2004 Moises A. Langhorst, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 05, 2004 Christopher Ramos, 26, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 05, 2004 Matthew K. Serio, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 05, 2004 Jesse L. Thiry, 23, Marine Corporal, Apr 05, 2004 Gerardo Moreno, 23, Army Sergeant, Apr 06, 2004 Lee Duane Todacheene, 29, Army Sergeant, Apr 06, 2004 Benjamin R. Carman, 20, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 06, 2004 Marcus M. Cherry, 18, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 06, 2004 Christopher R. Cobb, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 06, 2004 Kyle D. Crowley, 18, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 06, 2004 Ryan M. Jerabek, 18, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 06, 2004 Travis J. Layfield, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 06, 2004 Christopher D. Mabry, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 06, 2004 Anthony P. Roberts, 18, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 06, 2004 Allan K. Walker, 28, Marine Staff Sergeant, Apr 06, 2004 Fernando A. Mendez-Aceves, 27, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class, Apr 06, 2004 Tyanna S. Felder, 22, Army Specialist, Apr 07, 2004 Marvin Lee Miller, 38, Army Sergeant 1st Class, Apr 07, 2004 George S. Rentschler, 31, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 07, 2004 William W. Labadie Jr., 45, Army National Guard Sergeant 1st Class, Apr 07, 2004 Brent L. Morel, 27, Marine Captain, Apr 07, 2004 John Thomas "J.T." Wroblewski, 25, Marine 2nd Lieutenant, Apr 07, 2004 Isaac Michael Nieves, 20, Army Specialist, Apr 08, 2004 Levi T. Angell, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 08, 2004 Nicholas J. Dieruf, 21, Marine Corporal, Apr 08, 2004 Phillip E. Frank, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 08, 2004 William M. Harrell, 30, Marine Staff Sergeant, Apr 08, 2004 Joshua M. Palmer, 25, Marine 1st Lieutenant, Apr 08, 2004 Michael B. Wafford, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 08, 2004 Christopher B. Wasser, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 08, 2004 Peter G. Enos, 24, Army Specialist, Apr 09, 2004 Raymond Edison Jones Jr., 31, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 09, 2004 Jonathan Roy Kephart, 21, Army Specialist, Apr 09, 2004 Toby W. Mallet, 26, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 09, 2004 Don Steven McMahan, 31, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 09, 2004 Allen Jeffrey "A.J." Vandayburg, 20, Army Specialist, Apr 09, 2004 Felix M. Delgreco, 22, Army National Guard Sergeant, Apr 09, 2004 Michelle M. Witmer, 20, Army National Guard Specialist, Apr 09, 2004 Gregory R. Goodrich, 37, Army Reserve Private 1st Class, Apr 09, 2004 Elmer C. Krause, 40, Army Reserve Sergeant, Apr 09, 2004 Eric A. Ayon, 26, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 09, 2004 Matthew E. Matula, 20, Marine Corporal, Apr 09, 2004 Chance R. Phelps, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 09, 2004 Michael Raymond Speer, 24, Marine Corporal, Apr 09, 2004 Elias Torrez III, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 09, 2004 Antoine J. Holt, 20, Air Force Airman 1st Class, Apr 10, 2004 Adolf C. Carballo, 20, Army Specialist, Apr 10, 2004 William C. Eckhart, 25, Army Sergeant, Apr 10, 2004 John T. Sims Jr., 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 10, 2004 Lawrence S. Colton, 32, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Apr 11, 2004 Wesley C. Fortenberry, 38, Army Chief Warrant Officer, Apr 11, 2004 Justin W. Johnson, 22, Army Specialist, Apr 11, 2004 Michael Boyd Stack, 48, Army Sergeant Major, Apr 11, 2004 Nathan P. Brown, 21, Army National Guard Private 1st Class, Apr 11, 2004 Daniel R. Amaya, 22, Marine Corporal, Apr 11, 2004 Torrey L. Gray, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 11, 2004 Oscar Jimenez, 34, Marine 1st Lieutenant, Apr 11, 2004 George D. Torres, 23, Marine Private 1st Class, Apr 11, 2004 Brad S. Shuder, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 12, 2004 Robert Paul Zurheide Jr., 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 12, 2004 Victor A. Rosaleslomeli, 29, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 13, 2004 Noah L. Boye, 21, Marine Private, Apr 13, 2004 Kevin T. Kolm, 23, Marine Corporal, Apr 13, 2004 Christopher Ramirez, 34, Army Sergeant, Apr 14, 2004 Frank K. Rivers Jr., 23, Army Specialist, Apr 14, 2004 Richard K. Trevithick, 20, Army Specialist, Apr 14, 2004 Jimmy J. Arroyave, 30, Marine Staff Sergeant, Apr 15, 2004 Brian M. Wood, 21, Army Sergeant, Apr 16, 2004 Marvin A. Camposiles, 25, Army Specialist, Apr 17, 2004 Edward W. Carman, 27, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 17, 2004 Jonathan N. Hartman, 27, Army Sergeant, Apr 17, 2004 Clayton Welch Henson, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 17, 2004 Michael A. McGlothin, 21, Army Specialist, Apr 17, 2004 Robert L. Henderson II, 33, Army National Guard 1st Lieutenant, Apr 17, 2004 Dennis B. Morgan, 22, Army National Guard Specialist, Apr 17, 2004 Richard J. Gannon II, 31, Marine Captain, Apr 17, 2004 Christopher A. Gibson, 23, Marine Corporal, Apr 17, 2004 Michael J. Smith Jr., 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 17, 2004 Ruben Valdez Jr., 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 17, 2004 Gary F. Van Leuven, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 17, 2004 Bradley C. Fox, 34, Army 1st Sergeant, Apr 20, 2004 Leroy Harris-Kelly, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 20, 2004 Christopher D. Gelineau, 23, Army National Guard Specialist, Apr 20, 2004 Jason L. Dunham, 22, Marine Corporal, Apr 22, 2004 Shawn C. Edwards, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 23, 2004 Stacey C. Brandon, 35, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, Apr 24, 2004 Cory W. Brooks, 32, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, Apr 24, 2004 Arthur L. "Bo" Felder, 36, Army National Guard Captain, Apr 24, 2004 Patrick W. Kordsmeier, 49, Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer, Apr 24, 2004 Billy J. Orton, 41, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, Apr 24, 2004 Michael J. Pernaselli, 27, Navy Petty Officer 1st Class, Apr 24, 2004 Christopher E. Watts, 28, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class, Apr 24, 2004 Kenneth A. Melton, 30, Army National Guard Specialist, Apr 25, 2004 Nathan B. Bruckenthal, 24, Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class, Apr 25, 2004 Sherwood R. Baker, 30, Army National Guard Sergeant, Apr 26, 2004 Lawrence A. Roukey, 33, Army Reserve Sergeant, Apr 26, 2004 Aaron C. Austin, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Apr 26, 2004 Abraham D. Penamedina, 32, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 27, 2004 Marquis A. Whitaker, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 27, 2004 Jacob R. Herring, 21, Army Specialist, Apr 28, 2004 Kendall Thomas, 36, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 28, 2004 James L. Beckstrand, 27, Army Specialist, Apr 29, 2004 Ryan M. Campbell, 25, Army Sergeant, Apr 29, 2004 Norman Darling, 29, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 29, 2004 Jeffrey F. Dayton, 27, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 29, 2004 Adam W. Estep, 23, Army Sergeant, Apr 29, 2004 Jeremy Ricardo Ewing, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 29, 2004 Martin W. Kondor, 20, Army Specialist, Apr 29, 2004 Esau G. Patterson Jr., 25, Army Staff Sergeant, Apr 29, 2004 Ryan E. Reed, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Apr 29, 2004 Justin B. Schmidt, 23, Army Specialist, Apr 29, 2004 Landis W. Garrison, 23, Army National Guard Sergeant, Apr 29, 2004 Scott M. Vincent, 21, Marine Corporal, Apr 30, 2004 Joshua S. Wilfong, 22, Marine Corporal, Apr 30, 2004 Christopher M. Dickerson, 33, Naval Reserve Petty Officer 3rd Class, Apr 30, 2004 Jason B. Dwelley, 31, Naval Reserve Petty Officer 2nd Class, Apr 30, 2004 Ramon C. Ojeda, 22, Army Specialist, May 01, 2004 Oscar D. Vargas-Medina, 32, Army Staff Sergeant, May 01, 2004 Trevor A. Wine, 22, Army Specialist, May 01, 2004 Joshua S. Ladd, 20, Army National Guard Sergeant, May 01, 2004 Ervin Caradine Jr., 33, Army Specialist, May 02, 2004 Jeremy L. Drexler, 23, Army Private, May 02, 2004 Todd E. Nunes, 29, Army Staff Sergeant, May 02, 2004 John E. Tipton, 32, Army Captain, May 02, 2004 Michael C. Anderson, 36, Naval Reserve Petty Officer 2nd Class, May 02, 2004 Trace W. Dossett, 37, Naval Reserve Petty Officer 2nd Class, May 02, 2004 Ronald A. Ginther, 37, Naval Reserve Petty Officer 3rd Class, May 02, 2004 Robert B. Jenkins, 35, Naval Reserve Petty Officer 2nd Class, May 02, 2004 Scott R. Mchugh, 33, Naval Reserve Petty Officer 2nd Class, May 02, 2004 Christopher J. Kenny, 32, Army 1st Lieutenant, May 03, 2004 Lyndon A. Marcus Jr., 21, Army Private 1st Class, May 03, 2004 Erickson H. Petty, 28, Army Staff Sergeant, May 03, 2004 Marvin R. Sprayberry III, 24, Army Sergeant, May 03, 2004 Gregory L. Wahl, 30, Army Sergeant, May 03, 2004 Ronald E. Baum, 38, Marine Gunnery Sergeant, May 03, 2004 Jesse R. Buryj, 21, Army Private 1st Class, May 05, 2004 Bradley G. Kritzer, 18, Army Private 1st Class, May 05, 2004 James E. Marshall, 19, Army Specialist, May 05, 2004 Jeffrey G. Green, 20, Marine Corporal, May 05, 2004 Hesley Box Jr., 24, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, May 06, 2004 Dustin H. Schrage, 20, Marine Corporal, May 06, 2004 Isela Rubalcava, 25, Army Specialist, May 08, 2004 Chase R. Whitman, 21, Army Specialist, May 08, 2004 Philip D. Brown, 21, Army National Guard Specialist, May 08, 2004 James J. Holmes, 28, Army National Guard Specialist, May 08, 2004 Rodney A. Murray, 28, Army Reserve Sergeant, May 09, 2004 Andrew L. Tuazon, 21, Army Private 1st Class, May 10, 2004 Kyle A. Brinlee, 21, Army National Guard Specialist, May 11, 2004 Jeffrey R. Shaver, 26, Army National Guard Specialist, May 12, 2004 Jeremiah E. Savage, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, May 12, 2004 Brian K. Cutter, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, May 13, 2004 Brandon C. Sturdy, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, May 13, 2004 Brud J. Cronkrite, 22, Army Sergeant, May 14, 2004 Michael A. Mora, 19, Army Private 1st Class, May 14, 2004 Philip I. Spakosky, 25, Army Specialist, May 14, 2004 Edward C. Barnhill, 50, Army Reserve Command Sergeant Major, May 14, 2004 James William Harlan, 44, Army Reserve Sergeant, May 14, 2004 Pedro I. Espaillat Jr., 20, Air Force Senior Airman, May 15, 2004 Rene Ledesma, 34, Army Staff Sergeant, May 15, 2004 Leonard M. Cowherd Jr., 22, Army 2nd Lieutenant, May 16, 2004 Carl F. Curran, 22, Army National Guard Specialist, May 17, 2004 Mark Joseph Kasecky, 20, Army National Guard Specialist, May 17, 2004 Bob W. Roberts, 30, Marine Lance Corporal, May 17, 2004 Joseph P. Garyantes, 34, Army Staff Sergeant, May 18, 2004 Marcos O. Nolasco, 34, Army Specialist, May 18, 2004 William D. Chaney, 59, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, May 18, 2004 Michael M. Carey, 20, Marine Private 1st Class, May 18, 2004 Michael C. Campbell, 34, Army Specialist, May 19, 2004 Leslie D. Jackson, 18, Army Private 1st Class, May 20, 2004 Troy "Leon" Miranda, 44, Army National Guard Sergeant 1st Class, May 20, 2004 Rudy Salas, 20, Marine Corporal, May 20, 2004 Jeremy R. Horton, 24, Army Staff Sergeant, May 21, 2004 Andrew J. Zabierek, 25, Marine Lance Corporal, May 21, 2004 Jeremy L. Ridlen, 23, Army National Guard Specialist, May 23, 2004 Jorge A. Molina Bautista, 37, Marine Staff Sergeant, May 23, 2004 Beau R. Beaulieu, 20, Army Specialist, May 24, 2004 Owen D. Witt, 20, Army Private 1st Class, May 24, 2004 James P. Lambert, 23, Army Private 1st Class, May 25, 2004 Richard H. Rosas, 21, Army Private 1st Class, May 25, 2004 Alan N. Bean Jr., 22, Army National Guard Specialist, May 25, 2004 Kevin F. Sheehan, 36, Army National Guard Sergeant, May 25, 2004 Daniel Paul Unger, 19, Army National Guard Private 1st Class, May 25, 2004 Kyle W. Codner, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, May 26, 2004 Matthew C. Henderson, 25, Marine Corporal, May 26, 2004 Dominique J. Nicolas, 25, Marine Corporal, May 26, 2004 Michael J. Wiesemann, 20, Army Specialist, May 28, 2004 Cody S. Calavan, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, May 29, 2004 Benjamin R. Gonzalez, 23, Marine Lance Corporal, May 29, 2004 Rafael Reynosasuarez, 28, Marine Lance Corporal, May 29, 2004 Kenneth Michael Ballard, 26, Army 1st Lieutenant, May 30, 2004 Bradli N. Coleman, 19, Army Private, May 30, 2004 Aaron C. Elandt, 23, Army Sergeant, May 30, 2004 Charles E. Odums II, 22, Army Specialist, May 30, 2004 Nicholaus E. Zimmer, 20, Army Private 1st Class, May 30, 2004 Robert C. Scheetz Jr., 31, Army Captain, May 31, 2004 Dustin L. Sides, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, May 31, 2004 Markus J. Johnson, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Jun 01, 2004 Bumrok Lee, 21, Marine Corporal, Jun 02, 2004 Todd J. Bolding, 23, Marine Lance Corporal, Jun 03, 2004 Frank T. Carvill, 51, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jun 04, 2004 Christopher M. Duffy, 26, Army National Guard Specialist, Jun 04, 2004 Justin L. Eyerly, 23, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jun 04, 2004 Justin W. Linden, 22, Army National Guard Specialist, Jun 04, 2004 Erik S. McCrae, 25, Army National Guard 1st Lieutenant, Jun 04, 2004 Ryan E. Doltz, 26, Army National Guard Specialist, Jun 05, 2004 Humberto F. Timoteo, 25, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jun 05, 2004 Melissa J. Hobart, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Jun 06, 2004 Melvin Y. Mora Lopez, 27, Army Reserve Sergeant, Jun 06, 2004 Jamie A. Gray, 29, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jun 07, 2004 Jeremy L. Bohlman, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Jun 07, 2004 Humayun S. M. Khan, 27, Army Captain, Jun 08, 2004 Thomas D. Caughman, 20, Army Reserve Private 1st Class, Jun 09, 2004 Eric S. McKinley, 24, Army National Guard Specialist, Jun 13, 2004 Shawn M. Atkins, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Jun 14, 2004 Paul R. Syverson III, 32, Army Major, Jun 16, 2004 Jeremy M. Dimaranan, 29, Army Reserve Specialist, Jun 16, 2004 Arthur S. (Stacey) Mastrapa, 35, Army Reserve Sergeant, Jun 16, 2004 Jason N. Lynch, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Jun 18, 2004 Thai Vue, 22, Army Specialist, Jun 18, 2004 Sean Horn, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, Jun 19, 2004 Marvin Best, 33, Marine Staff Sergeant, Jun 20, 2004 Gregory V. Pennington, 36, Army Staff Sergeant, Jun 21, 2004 Pedro Contreras, 27, Marine Lance Corporal, Jun 21, 2004 Juan Lopez, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Jun 21, 2004 Deshon E. Otey, 24, Marine Lance Corporal, Jun 21, 2004 Tommy L. Parker Jr., 21, Marine Corporal, Jun 21, 2004 Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr., 34, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jun 22, 2004 Andre D. Tyson, 33, Army National Guard 1st Lieutenant, Jun 22, 2004 Christopher S. Cash, 36, Army National Guard Captain, Jun 24, 2004 Daniel A. Desens, 20, Army National Guard Specialist, Jun 24, 2004 Charles A. Kiser, 37, Army Reserve Staff Sergeant, Jun 24, 2004 Jeremy M. Heines, 25, Army Specialist, Jun 26, 2004 Manuel A. Ceniceros, 23, Marine Lance Corporal, Jun 26, 2004 Ernest E. Utt, 38, Army 1st Sergeant, Jun 27, 2004 Patrick R. Adle, 21, Marine Reserve Lance Corporal, Jun 29, 2004 Alan David Sherman, 36, Marine Reserve Sergeant, Jun 29, 2004 John H. Todd III, 24, Marine Reserve Corporal, Jun 29, 2004 Robert L. DuSang, 24, Army Specialist, Jun 30, 2004 Christopher A. Wagener, 24, Army Sergeant, Jul 01, 2004 Kenneth Conde Jr., 23, Marine Sergeant, Jul 01, 2004 Timothy R. Creager, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 01, 2004 Brian D. Smith, 30, Army 2nd Lieutenant, Jul 02, 2004 Stephen G. Martin, 39, Army Reserve Staff Sergeant, Jul 02, 2004 James B. Huston Jr., 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 02, 2004 Dallas L. Kerns, 21, Marine Corporal, Jul 05, 2004 Michael S. Torres, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 05, 2004 John J. Vangyzen IV, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 05, 2004 Scott Eugene Dougherty, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 06, 2004 Justin T. Hunt, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 06, 2004 Jeffrey D. Lawrence, 22, Marine Corporal, Jul 06, 2004 Rodricka Antwan Youmans, 22, Marine Private 1st Class, Jul 06, 2004 Michael C. Barkey, 22, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jul 07, 2004 Samuel R. Bowen, 38, Army National Guard Private 1st Class, Jul 07, 2004 Collier Edwin Barcus, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Jul 08, 2004 Robert E. Colvill Jr., 31, Army Sergeant, Jul 08, 2004 Shawn M. Davies, 22, Army Specialist, Jul 08, 2004 William River Emanuel IV, 19, Army Specialist, Jul 08, 2004 Joseph M. Garmback Jr., 24, Army Specialist, Jul 08, 2004 Sonny Gene Sampler, 23, Army Specialist, Jul 08, 2004 Jeremiah W. Schmunk, 21, Army National Guard Specialist, Jul 08, 2004 Terry Holmes Ordóñez, 22, Marine Corporal, Jul 10, 2004 Krisna Nachampassak, 27, Marine Sergeant, Jul 10, 2004 Christopher J. Reed, 20, Marine Private 1st Class, Jul 10, 2004 Trevor Spink, 36, Marine Staff Sergeant, Jul 10, 2004 Dustin W. Peters, 25, Air Force Staff Sergeant, Jul 11, 2004 James G. West, 34, Army Sergeant, Jul 11, 2004 Dana N. Wilson, 26, Army Specialist, Jul 11, 2004 Jeremy J. Fischer, 26, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jul 11, 2004 Linda Ann Tarango-Griess, 33, Army National Guard Sergeant 1st Class, Jul 11, 2004 Torry D. Harris, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Jul 13, 2004 Jesse J. Martinez, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Jul 14, 2004 Demetrius Lamont Rice, 24, Army Corporal, Jul 14, 2004 Paul C. Mardis Jr., 25, Army Staff Sergeant, Jul 15, 2004 Bryan P. Kelly, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 16, 2004 Craig S. Frank, 24, Army National Guard Specialist, Jul 17, 2004 David A. Hartman, 41, Army Reserve Sergeant 1st Class, Jul 17, 2004 Dale Thomas Lloyd, 22, Army Sergeant, Jul 19, 2004 Charles C. "C.C." Persing, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Jul 19, 2004 Danny B. Daniels II, 23, Army Specialist, Jul 20, 2004 Michael J. Clark, 29, Marine Staff Sergeant, Jul 20, 2004 Todd J. Godwin, 21, Marine Corporal, Jul 20, 2004 Nicholas H. Blodgett, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Jul 21, 2004 Mark E. Engel, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 21, 2004 Torey J. Dantzler, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Jul 22, 2004 Tatjana Reed, 34, Army Sergeant, Jul 22, 2004 Nicholas J. Zangara, 21, Army Specialist, Jul 24, 2004 Vincent M. Sullivan, 23, Marine Lance Corporal, Jul 24, 2004 DeForest L. "Dee" Talbert, 24, Army National Guard Sergeant, Jul 27, 2004 Ken W. Leisten, 20, Army National Guard Private 1st Class, Jul 28, 2004 Shawn A. Lane, 33, Marine Gunnery Sergeant, Jul 28, 2004 David S. Greene, 39, Marine Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, Jul 28, 2004 Joseph F. Herndon II, 21, Army Specialist, Jul 29, 2004 Anthony J. Dixon, 20, Army Specialist, Aug 01, 2004 Armando Hernandez, 22, Army Specialist, Aug 01, 2004 Justin B. Onwordi, 28, Army Specialist, Aug 02, 2004 Juan Calderon Jr., 26, Marine Sergeant, Aug 02, 2004 Dean P. Pratt, 22, Marine Corporal, Aug 02, 2004 Tommy L. Gray, 34, Army Sergeant, Aug 03, 2004 Harry N. Shondee Jr., 19, Army Private 1st Class, Aug 03, 2004 Gregory A. Ratzlaff, 36, Marine Captain, Aug 03, 2004 Elia P. Fontecchio, 30, Marine Gunnery Sergeant, Aug 04, 2004 Joseph L. Nice, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 04, 2004 Raymond J. Faulstich Jr., 24, Army Private 1st Class, Aug 05, 2004 Donald R. McCune, 20, Army National Guard Specialist, Aug 05, 2004 Yadir G. Reynoso, 27, Marine Sergeant, Aug 05, 2004 Moses Daniel Rocha, 33, Marine Sergeant, Aug 05, 2004 Joshua I. Bunch, 23, Army Specialist, Aug 06, 2004 Roberto Abad, 22, Marine Corporal, Aug 06, 2004 Larry L. Wells, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 06, 2004 David L. Potter, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Aug 07, 2004 Rick A. Ulbright, 49, Dept. of the Air Force Civilian, Aug 08, 2004 Jonathan W. Collins, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 08, 2004 Andrew R. Houghton, 25, Army Captain, Aug 09, 2004 John R. Howard, 26, Marine Staff Sergeant, Aug 11, 2004 Tavon L. Hubbard, 24, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 11, 2004 Michael Yury Tarlavsky, 30, Army Captain, Aug 12, 2004 Neil Anthony Santoriello, 24, Army 1st Lieutenant, Aug 13, 2004 Kane M. Funke, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 13, 2004 Nicholas B. Morrison, 23, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 13, 2004 James Michael Goins, 23, Army 2nd Lieutenant, Aug 15, 2004 Brandon R. Sapp, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Aug 15, 2004 Daniel Michael Shepherd, 23, Army Sergeant, Aug 15, 2004 Mark Anthony Zapata, 27, Army Specialist, Aug 15, 2004 Fernando B. Hannon, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, Aug 15, 2004 Geoffrey Perez, 24, Marine Private 1st Class, Aug 15, 2004 David M. Heath, 30, Army Sergeant, Aug 16, 2004 Brandon T. Titus, 20, Army Specialist, Aug 17, 2004 Caleb J. Powers, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 17, 2004 Jacob D. Martir, 21, Army Specialist, Aug 18, 2004 Henry C. Risner, 26, Army Private 1st Class, Aug 18, 2004 Dustin R. Fitzgerald, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 18, 2004 Richard M. Lord, 24, Marine Sergeant, Aug 18, 2004 Harvey Emmett Parkerson III, 27, Marine Sergeant, Aug 18, 2004 Brad Preston McCormick, 23, Marine Reserve Corporal, Aug 19, 2004 Ryan A. Martin, 22, Army National Guard Private 1st Class, Aug 20, 2004 Charles L. Wilkins III, 38, Army National Guard 1st Lieutenant, Aug 20, 2004 Kevin A. Cuming, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Aug 21, 2004 Nicanor Alvarez, 22, Marine Corporal, Aug 21, 2004 Jason Cook, 25, Marine Sergeant, Aug 21, 2004 Seth Huston, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 21, 2004 Edward T. Reeder, 32, Marine Gunnery Sergeant, Aug 21, 2004 Nachez Washalanta, 21, Marine Private 1st Class, Aug 21, 2004 Matthew R. Stovall, 25, Army National Guard 2nd Lieutenant, Aug 22, 2004 Christopher Belchik, 30, Marine Corporal, Aug 22, 2004 Robert C. Thornton Jr., 35, Army Staff Sergeant, Aug 23, 2004 Donald N. Davis, 42, Army Reserve Staff Sergeant, Aug 24, 2004 Jacob R. Lugo, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 24, 2004 Marco D. Ross, 20, Army Specialist, Aug 25, 2004 Charles L. Neeley, 19, Army Reserve Specialist, Aug 25, 2004 Alexander S. Arredondo, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 25, 2004 Barton R. Humlhanz, 23, Marine Corporal, Aug 26, 2004 Nicholas M. Skinner, 20, Marine Private 1st Class, Aug 26, 2004 Omead H. Razani, 19, Army Specialist, Aug 27, 2004 Luis A. Perez, 19, Army Reserve Private 1st Class, Aug 27, 2004 Nickalous N. Aldrich, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 27, 2004 Edgar E. Lopez, 27, Marine Sergeant, Aug 28, 2004 Carl L. Anderson Jr., 21, Air Force Airman 1st Class, Aug 29, 2004 Aaron N. Holleyman, 26, Army Staff Sergeant, Aug 30, 2004 Joseph C. Thibodeaux III, 24, Army Specialist, Sep 01, 2004 Nicholas Perez, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 03, 2004 Alan Rowe, 35, Marine Captain, Sep 03, 2004 Nicholas Wilt, 23, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 03, 2004 Ronald Winchester, 25, Marine 1st Lieutenant, Sep 03, 2004 Eric L. Knott, 21, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class, Sep 04, 2004 Ryan Michael McCauley, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Sep 05, 2004 Gary A. Vaillant, 41, Army Staff Sergeant, Sep 05, 2004 Charles R. Lamb, 23, Army National Guard Specialist, Sep 05, 2004 Shawna M. Morrison, 26, Army National Guard Sergeant, Sep 05, 2004 John J. Boria, 29, Air Force Captain, Sep 06, 2004 Elvis Bourdon, 36, Army Staff Sergeant, Sep 06, 2004 Tomas Garces, 19, Army National Guard Specialist, Sep 06, 2004 Devin J. Grella, 21, Army Reserve Private 1st Class, Sep 06, 2004 Brandon Michael Read, 21, Army Reserve Specialist, Sep 06, 2004 Michael J. Allred, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 06, 2004 David Paul Burridge, 19, Marine Private 1st Class, Sep 06, 2004 Derek L. Gardner, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 06, 2004 Quinn A. Keith, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 06, 2004 Joseph C. McCarthy, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 06, 2004 Mick R. Nygardbekowsky, 21, Marine Corporal, Sep 06, 2004 Lamont N. Wilson, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 06, 2004 Clarence Adams III, 28, Army Specialist, Sep 07, 2004 Yoe M. Aneiros, 20, Army Specialist, Sep 07, 2004 Chad H. Drake, 23, Army Specialist, Sep 07, 2004 Timothy E. Price, 25, Army 1st Lieutenant, Sep 07, 2004 James Daniel Faulkner, 23, Army Sergeant, Sep 08, 2004 Michael A. Martinez, 29, Army Specialist, Sep 08, 2004 Jason L. Sparks, 19, Army Private 1st Class, Sep 08, 2004 Lauro G. DeLeon Jr., 20, Army Reserve Specialist, Sep 08, 2004 Edgar P. Daclan Jr., 24, Army Specialist, Sep 10, 2004 David A. Cedergren, 25, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class, Sep 11, 2004 Jason T. Poindexter, 20, Marine Private 1st Class, Sep 12, 2004 Alexander E. Wetherbee, 27, Marine 1st Lieutenant, Sep 12, 2004 Guy Stanley Hagy Jr., 31, Army Staff Sergeant, Sep 13, 2004 Carl Thomas, 29, Army Sergeant, Sep 13, 2004 Benjamin W. Isenberg, 27, Army National Guard Specialist, Sep 13, 2004 David J. Weisenburg, 26, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, Sep 13, 2004 Dominic C. Brown, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 13, 2004 Michael J. Halal, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 13, 2004 Cesar F. Machado-Olmos, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 13, 2004 Jaygee Ngirmidol Meluat, 24, Marine Corporal, Sep 13, 2004 Mathew D. Puckett, 19, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 13, 2004 Adrian V. Soltau, 21, Marine Corporal, Sep 13, 2004 Tyler Hall Brown, 26, Army 1st Lieutenant, Sep 14, 2004 Jacob H. Demand, 29, Army Sergeant, Sep 14, 2004 Kevin M. Shea, 38, Marine Major, Sep 14, 2004 Gregory C. Howman, 28, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 15, 2004 Drew M. Uhles, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 15, 2004 Steven A. Rintamaki, 21, Marine Corporal, Sep 16, 2004 Andrew K. Stern, 24, Marine 1st Lieutenant, Sep 16, 2004 Christopher S. Ebert, 21, Marine Corporal, Sep 17, 2004 James W. Price, 22, Army Private 1st Class, Sep 18, 2004 Thomas Chad Rosenbaum, 25, Army Sergeant, Sep 18, 2004 Brandon E. Adams, 22, Army Sergeant, Sep 19, 2004 Joshua J. Henry, 21, Army Specialist, Sep 20, 2004 Steven C. T. Cates, 22, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 20, 2004 Foster L. Harrington, 31, Marine Reserve Sergeant, Sep 20, 2004 Nathan E. Stahl, 20, Army Private 1st Class, Sep 21, 2004 Adam J. Harris, 21, Army Private 1st Class, Sep 22, 2004 Skipper Soram, 23, Army Sergeant, Sep 22, 2004 Lance J. Koenig, 33, Army National Guard Staff Sergeant, Sep 22, 2004 Benjamin K. Smith, 24, Marine Sergeant, Sep 22, 2004 Aaron Boyles, 24, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 24, 2004 Timothy Folmar, 21, Marine Sergeant, Sep 24, 2004 Ryan Leduc, 28, Marine 2nd Lieutenant, Sep 24, 2004 Ramon Mateo, 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 24, 2004 Robert Oliver U

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