[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15309]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       A TRAGIC MARKER: 2,000-PLUS U.S. FATALITIES IN AFGHANISTAN

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, on October 2, while Congress was 
campaigning, the Pentagon registered the 2,000th fatality in 
Afghanistan, the longest war in American history. Today, that number 
has risen to 2,026.
  It is imperative that we all remember the terrible human price that 
has been paid, is being paid, and will continue to be paid by our 
troops in Afghanistan and their families.
  This year there have been 60 so-called ``blue on green'' killings of 
U.S. troops by Afghan soldiers that we're training. Veterans of Iraq 
and Afghanistan kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. More 
Active Duty U.S. military personnel have died by suicide since the war 
in Afghanistan began than have died fighting there. Nearly 18,000 have 
been wounded in Afghanistan alone.
  Let us bring them all home. Let us provide our veterans and active 
military the care and benefits that they have so bravely earned. Let's 
end the war in Afghanistan now.

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