With the war a leading concern as voters head to the polls, here’s a reminder of some of the human cost in Arkansas, based on information from www.militarycity.com. There’s no ready source of Arkansans among the more than 8,000 wounded.
• 3/25/03 — Navy Corpsman Michael Vann Johnson, 25, of Little Rock, killed while attending to wounded Marines.
• 7/26/03 — Army Pfc. Jonathan M. Cheatham, 19, of Camden, killed when his convoy came under attack from rocket-propelled grenades.
• 9/12/03 — Army Master Sgt. Kevin Morehead, 33, of Little Rock, killed in Ramadi during a raid on the home of a suspected insurgent.
• 9/30/03 — Army Spc. Dustin McGaugh, 20, of Derby, Kansas, formerly of Springdale, killed in a friendly-fire accident in Balad.
• 10/3/03 — U.S. Army Lt. Col. Paul W. Kimbrough Sr., 44, died of a heart attack while serving in Afghanistan.
• 11/02/03 — Army Sgt. Keelan L. Moss, 23, of Houston, Texas, formerly of Little Rock, killed when the Ch-47 Chinook helicopter he was riding in came under fire.
• 3/7/04 — Army Capt. Gussie M. Jones, 41, a nurse who graduated from UCA, died in Baghdad of “heart attack like symptoms.”
• 3/18/04 — Marine Pfc. Brandon C. Smith, 20, of Washington, killed in action in Al Qaim, Iraq.
• 4/7/04 — Army Sgt. 1st Class William W. Labadie Jr., 45, of Bauxite, killed when his camp in Baghdad was attacked by mortar fire.
• 4/24/04 — Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Patrick W. Kordsmeier, 49, of North Little Rock, killed when mortar rounds hit his camp in Taji.
• 4/24/04 — Army Capt. Arthur L. “Bo” Felder, killed when mortar rounds hit his camp in Taji.
• 4/24/04 — Army Sgt. Stacey C. Brandon, 35, killed when mortar rounds hit his camp in Taji.
• 4/24/04 — Army Staff Sgt. Billy J. Orton, 41, of Humnoke, killed when mortar rounds hit his camp in Taji.
• 4/25/04 — Army Spc. Kenneth A. Melton, 30, of Batesville, killed when the convoy he was riding in was ambushed near Baghdad.
• 5/6 /04 — Staff Sgt. Hesley Box Jr., 24, of Nashville, killed when a car bomb exploded near his post in Baghdad.
• 5/20/04 — Sgt. 1 st Class Troy “Leon” Miranda, 44, of De Queen, killed when a grenade was lobbed at his patrol in Baghdad.
• 6/21/04 — Marine Cpl. Tommy “T.J.” Parker, 21, of Heber Springs, killed in an ambush in Ramadi.
• 7/11/04 — Air Force Staff Sgt. Dustin W. Peters, 25, of El Dorado, Kan., formerly of Shirley, killed in an ambush near Base Summerall, Iraq.
• 9/18/04 — Sgt. Thomas C. Rosenbaum, 48, of Hope, killed when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb.
• 10/3/04 — Sgt. Russell C. Collier, 48, of Harrison, killed by machine-gun fire while conducting traffic-control duty in Taji.
• 10/13/04 — Army Spc. Ronald W. Baker, 34, of Cabot, died in Landstuhl, Germany of injuries sustained Oct. 7, when a car bomb exploded near his Humvee in Taji.
• 10/21/04 — Airman 1st Class Jesse M. Samek, 21, of Rogers. Killed when his HH-606 Pave Hawk helicopter went down in western Afghanistan.