8/31/2010

According to a CNN.com article on August 31, 2010: “At 5 p.m. ET [on August 31, 2010]–at a cost of more than 4,400 U.S. military personnel killed and 30,000 wounded–America’s combat mission in Iraq officially drew to a close.”

 – Alan Silverleib, “U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq Ends,” CNN, Sep. 1, 2010