Joseph Stalin once said that "the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic," but peace activists have always disagreed. Just as they did when the death toll for US soldiers in Iraq reached one thousand, just as they did when the death toll for for US soldiers in Iraq reached two thousand, activists gathered on Memorial Bridge for a candlelight vigil to mourn the senseless death of three thousand US troops. Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated in the hundreds of thousands.
