Memorial Day: 5 deadliest places for US soldiers
A US Army carry team moves the transfer case of U.S. Army Sgt. Nicholas M. Dickhut during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, on May 2, 2012 in Dover, Delaware. Sgt. Dickhut, who was from Rochester, Minnesota, was killed during a firefight in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province.
As America commemorates Memorial Day, more than 2.2 million US service members have seen active duty in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last decade. According to the Associated Press, more than 6,330 have died in the wars since 2001, approximately 4,500 in Iraq and more than 1,840 in Afghanistan.
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