nbcnews: 2,000 gone in Afghanistan: Did you notice the death of Sgt. Riley Stephens? (Photo: Tom Pennington / Getty Images) When No. 2,000 fell last weekend in Afghanistan, journalists were keeping count. But is the nation keeping up? Sunday marks the 11-year anniversary of the first American missile strikes against terrorist and Taliban targets inside Afghanistan. The U.S. military death toll has ticked ever slowly upward from the war’s launch in October 2001 as a globally watched counterattack to 9/11 through the height of the Iraq War when service members in Afghanistan darkly dubbed their own battleground “Forgot-istan.” Read the complete story.

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2,000 gone in Afghanistan: Did you notice the death of Sgt. Riley Stephens?

(Photo: Tom Pennington / Getty Images)

When No. 2,000 fell last weekend in Afghanistan, journalists were keeping count. But is the nation keeping up?

Sunday marks the 11-year anniversary of the first American missile strikes against terrorist and Taliban targets inside Afghanistan. The U.S. military death toll has ticked ever slowly upward from the war’s launch in October 2001 as a globally watched counterattack to 9/11 through the height of the Iraq War when service members in Afghanistan darkly dubbed their own battleground “Forgot-istan.”

(via nbcnews)