Each of us mourns the Iraq war dead in our own way. From time to time I visit Faces of the Fallen, look at pictures of the deceased soldiers and read their online guestbooks at legacy.com. It would take weeks to get through all 4,000 of them.

If there were such a sight for the Iraqi victims, reading it in its entirety would require full-time focus for years (maybe even decades, depending the body-count estimate you use), and the pace of carnage would probably make catching up impossible. The carnage overwhelms the capacity for comprehension.

As we collectively turn our attention to the large, round number of American casualties, it's worth a minute to view a few one-at-a-time.