As of March 19th, 2009      4,263 Soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq.

You may be sick of hearing about Iraq, I am too... But please don't forget all those that have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and those that are still fighting - they need to be honored and remembered.

(CNN) -- With Americans confronting an economic crisis, public interest in the nearly 6-year-old war in Iraq has dropped off over the past few years as conditions on the ground there have improved and the relevance to the average American family's pocketbook wears thin.

"This is already one of the longest wars in American history. There's nothing new in Iraq," said Steven Roberts, a professor of media studies at George Washington University. "We've read the stories of instability in the government a hundred times. Every single possible story has been told, and so there is enormous fatigue about Iraq."

But while daily operations in Iraq may not pique the attention of Americans, the costs do.

About $700 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office, has been appropriated from the 2003-09 fiscal years. Taking into account operations for fiscal year 2010, the price tag is about $800 billion.

And although the rate of U.S. deaths has slowed since a spike in 2007, it has added up over six years.

According to CNN's count, as of March 12, 4,259 Americans have been killed in the war since it started on March 19, 2003, when President George W. Bush announced to the world in a televised address that the United States was taking action to "disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger."  To read the rest of the story