KRT Wire | 12/05/2003 | Denial of Purple Heart medals raises questions about casualty count: "GULFPORT, Miss. - (KRT) - An influential Mississippi congressman has raised the possibility that the Pentagon has undercounted combat casualties in Iraq after he learned that five members of the Mississippi National Guard who were injured Sept. 12 by a booby trap in Iraq were denied Purple Heart medals."

This seems very wrong. Is it just an oversight on the Pentagon's part or is it a concerted effort to keep casualty numbers down?