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I read this article on time.com and thought it couldnt have been said better. I'll start you off with a teaser of the first paragraph...

The real meaning of 4,000 dead
by Lieut. Sean Walsh

The passing of the 4,000th service member in Iraq is a tragic milestone and a testament to the cost of this war, but for those of us who live and fight in Iraq, we measure that cost in smaller, but much more personal numbers. For me those numbers are 8, the number of friends and classmates killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 3, the number of soldiers from my unit killed in this deployment. I'm 25, yet I've received more notifications for funerals than invitations to weddings. ... more...

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