Death toll - Letter to the Editor

Published: August 11, 2010

July 31, 2010

Letters to the Editor
The Post & Courier
Charleston SC

Dear Sirs:

It is more important to keep the total cost of American lives lost in Afghanistan before the American people than it is to report the total number of failed banks in the U.S. this year.
The recent Associated Press story (Sat. July 31) "'Tough fighting' takes toll" shed light on monthly figures of servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan since the end of February but did not report how many brave American men and women (and other coalition forces) have been killed in this nine-year war.
Elsewhere in the paper it was reported that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had a day earlier seized 3 more banks and that brought to a total of 106 banks which have failed in 2010.
I acknowledge it is highly likely, as the AP reported, "the rise in causalities is likely to erode support for the war in Washington and the capitals of the 45 other countries that provide troops" in Afghanistan. This happened in the Vietnam War. So be it. We at home need to constantly have before us the terrible cost of this nine-year war. Otherwise it will go on and on.

Sincerely,

/s/Francis X. Archibald

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