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Joint Chiefs Chairman Has Trouble Counting

May 30, 2007
Gen. Peter Pace, speaking to CBS' Harry Smith on Memorial Day, said: "When you take a look at the life of a nation and all that's required to keep us free, we had more than 3,000 Americans murdered on 11 September, 2001. The number who have died, sacrificed themselves since that time, is approaching that number." In actuality, 3,455 U.S. military personnel had been killed in Iraq alone at the time of Pace's blunder.