"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, 'Mother, what was war?'"-Eve Merriam

Another month of a senseless war with no end in sight, leading to the loss of more American lives. Certain news agencies have decided to talk about the casualties, but only in the context that May was lowest casualty rate of the war. Only 35 American troops died in May (21 in Iraq and 15 in Afghanistan)!! Is this reason to celebrate? Even Bill O'Reilly took a break from the Great American Culture Quiz and his weekly blathering with Dennis Miller to acknowledge that there is in fact a war going on in which Americans are dying. Of course, he did not talk about the Americans who sacrificed their lives, he talked about how Brian Williams had failed to to talk about the low casualty rate for the month of May on the NBC Nightly News. Nice work by Mr. O'Reilly, be sure do visit his website and get dad a No Spin hat for Father's Day. For those of us who take a vested interest in the loss of any American life on foreign soil. Here is the continuing list of Americans who served and died that I have chronicled here:

1. Spc. Jeffrey F. Nichols, 21, Granite Shoals, Texas
2. Sgt. Glen E. Martinez, 31, Boulder, Colorado
3. Lance Cpl. James F. Kimple, 21, Carroll, Ohio
4. Cpl. Miguel A. Guzman, 21, Norwalk, California
5. Lance Cpl. Casey L. Casanova, 22, McComb, Mississippi
6. Pvt. Corey L. Hicks, 22, Glendale, Arizona,
7. Pfc. Aaron J. Ward, 19, San Jacinto, California
8. Spec. Alex D. Gonzalez, 21, Mission, Texas
9. Staff Sgt. Kevin C. Roberts, 25, Farmington, New Mexico
10. Spec. Jeremy R. Gullett, 22, Greenup, Kentucky
11. Pfc. Ara T. Deysie, 18, Parker, Arizona
12. Spec. Mary J. Jaenichen, 20, Temecula, California
13. Spec. Joseph A. Ford, 23, Knox, Indiana
14. Cpl. Jessica A. Ellis, 24, Bend, Oregon
15. Pvt. Matthew W. Brown, 20, Zelienople, Pennsylvania
16. Staff Sgt. Victor M. Cota, 33, Tucson, Arizona
17. Sgt. John K. Daggett, 21, Phoenix, Arizona
18. Pfc. Howard A. Jones, Jr., 35, Chicago, Illinois
19. Pvt. Branden P. Haunert, 21, Cincinnati, Ohio
20. Master Sgt. Davy N. Weaver, 39, Barnesville, Georgia
21. Cpl. William J. L. Cooper, 22, Eupora, Mississippi
22. Lt. Jeffrey A. Ammon, 37, Orem, Utah
23. 1st Lt. Jeffrey F. Deprimo, 35, Pittston, Pennsylvania
24. Lt. Col. Joseph A. Moore, 54, Boise, Idaho
25. Pfc. Kyle P. Norris, 22, Zanesville, Ohio
26. Sgt. 1st Class Jason F. Dene, 37, Castleton, Vermont
27. Spec. David L. Leimbach, 38, Taylors, South Carolina
28. Sgt. Frank J. Gasper, 25, Merced, California
29. Sgt. Blake W. Evans, 24, Rockford, Illinois
30. Spec. Justin L. Buxbaum, 23, South Portland, Maine
31. Spec. Christopher Gathercole, 21, Santa Rosa, California
32. Sgt. 1st Class David Nunez, 27, Los Angeles, California
33. Cpl. Christian S. Cotner, 20, Waterbury, Connecticut
34. Pvt. Andrew J. Shields, 19, Battleground, Washington
35. Spec. James M. Finley, 21, Lebanon, Missouri

Since 2001, 4,582 Americans have died in Afghanistan and Iraq. Spec. Justin R. Mixon, 22, from Bogalusa, Louisiana died in an IED attack in Baghdad on June 1, thus beginning another month where Americans will die in a war that lacks purpose.