U.S. military deaths in Iraq campaign pass 1,000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a few storys about a month ago in a few of the major papers about combat casualties hitting the 1,000 combat dead mark? At this point, I feel like we're in a situation that not only requires 'eternal vigilance' like the founding fathers stated in order to keep one's democracy, but also 'eternal news records keeping' to keep track of all the storys that have been put out, retracted, then denied that they were ever published in the first place.