January Casualty Statistics.

2007.01casualtybgraph, originally uploaded by Randuwa.

The blue bars represent the accumulating totals across the month, the red bars are daily totals. You may recall how deadly the 20th was. Many numbers were batted around on the news and in the press. In the end, the DoD issued press releases for 24 casualties and declared January 20th the third deadliest day in the war. Certainly the month began hopefully. Six of the first twelve days saw no U.S. military casualties, making it one of the least deadly 12 day periods in many, many months. As a total, 84 is above the monthly average of approximately 65. Of the 84 casualties, 4 were women. And as of the date of this posting, the DoD has yet to release the identities of three of the casualties pending notification of their families.