Taking note of the casualty lists is important.
As the tempo of operations is increasing, so are the casualty lists. Until now, everyone knew someone else’s family that had lost someone. Now it is beginning to become their own families. This will especially hit home next winter, when the casualty lists from Europe begin to made public.
Good observation.
The populations of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were roughly 15% of the total U.S. at the time. So the lists of names would have been a lot longer if they printed them all.