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1,000 U.S.
NATION / WORLD
Story by Wes Johnson • Photos by Dean Curtis

deaths in
Afghan
conflict
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NO END IN SIGHT
FOR GULF OIL
DISASTER / 2A Military hits milestone
as it attempts new tactic.
By Robert H. Reid
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan — More
U.S. military deaths in the last 10
months of the Afghan war than in
the first five years of the conflict.
More boots on the ground than in
Iraq.

Discarded book holds county’s war

As the U.S. military death toll in

HISTORY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
the Afghan conflict reached the
PROTESTERS 1,000 mark, a fight that has be-
come “Obama’s war” now faces
MARCH IN PHOENIX its greatest challenge — a high-
risk campaign to win over a hos-
RALLY / 2A tile population in the Taliban’s
southern heartland.
More casualties are expected
OZARKS WWI memorial reveals names of local heroes. when the campaign kicks into
high gear this summer. The re-
sults may de-

I
n 1971, Don King got more than a stack of old newspapers during termine the More on war
a Boy Scout paper recycling drive. outcome of a
nearly nine- • U.S. comman-
As the 13-year-old Scout worked through the pile, a treasure was year conflict ders will try to pull
revealed — a leather-bound 1919 history book memorializing every that has be- off the military
come the fo- equivalent of brain
Greene County resident who served in World War I. cus of Ameri- surgery: defeating
ca’s fight the militants with
against Is- minimal use of force
AMBER ARNOLD / NEWS-LEADER Handwritten in ink on the inside cover, two lamist mili- in Kandahar. 4A
names: Fay Grier and Joe Young. tancy.
SILVER SPRINGS “I have no idea who they are,” said King, a The 1,000th U.S. military death
PARK POOL OPEN history buff with a minor in history from
Drury University.
occurred in a roadside bombing
Friday — just before the Memor-
FOR SUMMER / 1B “I don’t know if the owner inadvertent-
ly threw it in there with the newspapers
ial Day weekend when America
honors the dead in all its wars.
or not. If they want it back, it’s their prop- A NATO statement did not
OPINION erty.”
“Honor Roll of Greene County, Mis-
identify or give the nationality of
the victim. U.S. spokesman Col.
souri” lists hundreds of area residents who Wayne Shanks said the trooper
served — men and women, black and white was American — the 32nd U.S.
— with their photos, military rank and par- war death this month by an Asso-
ents’ names. ciated Press count.
Most survived the war. Some did not. The list of U.S. service mem-
“To the sons of Missouri who valiantly served and bers killed in combat in
fought for their country’s cause, this book is dedicat- Afghanistan begins with Sgt. 1st
ed,” the book notes. Class Nathan Ross Chapman of
King said his mother saved the book from the San Antonio, Texas, a 31-year-old
recycling pile — she particularly liked the career Special Forces soldier am-
NEWS-LEADER FILE, 2009
suede-leather cover — and kept it on a book- bushed on Jan. 4, 2002, after at-
shelf for 28 years. tending a meeting with Afghan
TAX WILL ALLOW “Recently, she was going through books
she doesn’t use anymore,” King said. “This
leaders in Khost province.
He left a wife and two children.
CONTINUED one she wanted to be in a special place, a
place that gets the most use for people.”
The base where a suicide bomber
killed seven CIA employees last
GROWTH / 1E He has no plans to put it on eBay. December bears his name.
“Absolutely not,” King said. “If we can’t find The AP bases its tally on De-
who owned it, this book belongs to the residents fense Department reports of
BUSINESS of Greene County. It should go where it would do deaths suffered as a direct result
the most good, maybe the public library. Let’s let this of the Afghan conflict, including
NEW BUSINESSES Ralph Man-
thing keep on living — it’s a living, historical docu-
ment.” Maj. Edwin P. Hub-
personnel assigned to units in
Afghanistan, Pakistan or Uzbek-
OPEN LOCALLY / 3E ley’s twin
aunts, Bettie, SONS AND DAUGHTERS, TOO
ble, (top) for whom
the Hubble telescope
istan. Other news organizations
count deaths suffered by service
(top), and Although dedicated to the sons of Missouri, the is named, is in the members assigned elsewhere as
Index A GANNETT NEWSPAPER
VOL. 120, NO. 150 ©2010, NEWS-LEADER Bessie, were book honors many local women who made significant Honor Roll of Greene part of Operation Enduring Free-
volunteer Red contributions during the war. County. Lt. W.T.H. Burns
D. Asby 3E Life 1C Cross nurses There’s a photo of Mrs. Mary Denton — “champion was one of dozens of See Afghan, Page 6A
Auctions 29G Lottery 1B
Automotive 3G Merchandise 29G and served at knitter” — who knitted more than 800 garments for black soldiers from
Best Sellers 3C Movies 10A Brest, France. the Red Cross in Springfield in two years during the Greene County to
Business 3E Nation/World 2A war. serve during World
Careerbuilder 1G Opinion 1E
Carolyn Hax 8C Real Estate Two sisters — Bettie and Bessie Manley — volun- War I. Burns fought in
Classified 1G For Sale 1H teered as nurses in 1918, having graduated from State the Battle of the Ar-
Crossword 8C Rentals 3H gonne Forest and oth-
Deaths 6B Sports 1D
Garage sales 29G Travel 9C See History, Page 5A er battles.
Horoscope 8C Weather 6E

Weather
87° Times of clouds
and sun today.
65° Humid through-
out region. 6E

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ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO, 2010

U.S. Marines carry a wounded
fellow Marine across a field to a
waiting U.S. Army Task Force Pe-
gasus medevac helicopter during
This photo shows the Old Company K. National Guard, taken Sept. 15, 1917 at Camp Clark in Nevada, an ongoing firefight in Helmand
Mo. The picture appears with numerous others in a leather-bound book about WWI from 1919. province, Afghanistan.