By
Edwin Mora


U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry
Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, kneel as Father Carl
Subler, a chaplain and captain, celebrates mass in Helmand province,
southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. (AP photo)

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137 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan since the first of the
year, making the first five months of 2010 the deadliest
January-through-May period of any year of the almost nine-year-long war. More>>>>>

The 137 casualties so far this year more than double the 59 that
occurred last year from January through May. Thus far, 2009 has been the
deadliest year of the war, but the high current casualty count for this
year, and the heavy fighting anticipated in Kandahar this summer, put
2010 on track to be even deadlier.

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