Army specialist Brian Gorham wounded in Iraq dies 18 days later

KY soldier dies

Updated: Jan 3, 2008 07:57 AM EST


New Media Producer: Amanda Lents

A Kentucky soldier dies from burns suffered when the humvee he was riding in rolled over a bomb in Afghanistan.

Twenty-three-year-old Army specialist Brian Gorham, of Woodburn died 18 days after the explosion.

Specialist Gorham was being treated at the Army hospital in San Antonio, Texas.

Governor Steve Beshear has directed that flags at all state office buildings be lowered to half-staff in honor of Specialist Gorham.
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His death has not been counted yet on CNN or ICasualties.org yet. How many others die and are not counted? They count with their families and friends. They count in their own community. We do a horrible job of making sure they count to the rest of the nation.

I found several non-combat deaths connected to their service in Iraq and Afghanistan who have not been counted in any of the figures. Why is this happening? All of them need to be counted. They paid the price in service to this nation as surely as those who were killed on the spot from a bullet or bomb. They should not be forgotten because their passing was after they came home. If we cannot even count those who died from obvious wounds from service, how can we come close to counting those who die because of wounds we cannot see?