The war in Iraq hits home once again. Five more Twentynine Palms marines were killed over the weekend, adding to the more than 100 Americans in uniform killed in Iraq just this month.

We spoke with residents in Twentynine Palms today where these recent deaths have some visibly shaken.

Is there too high of a price to pay in Iraq? A point at which the number of Americans killed there makes it not worth being there? That's a question some in the little military town of Twentynine Palms say they're asking now, for the first time since the war began.

“Our guys are getting slayed over there. It's bad,” says Jim Mahon

Over the weekend five more marines were killed in Iraq. The Department of Defense released these four names:

Captain Richard Gannon II from Escondido. Lance Cpl. Michael Smith Jr. from Jefferson, Ohio. Lance Cpl. Ruben Valdez from San Diego, Texas. Lance Cpl. Gary Van Leuven of Klamath Falls, Oregon.

The family of the fifth marine, Corporal Chris Gibson, told NewsChannel 3 he died when his convoy was ambushed near the Syrian border.

Since the start of the war, more than two dozen Twentynine Palms marines have died in Iraq. And some here, who admittedly don't have family members serving in Iraq, say while they supported the war at first it's getting harder to support it now.

 “We're policing their country and losing lives and it's not worth it,” says Don Cowart. “Bring 'em home.”

But Gibson's family says he wouldn't have wanted that . They say he was one hundred percent marine, believing entirely in why the U.S. Is in Iraq and believing in what he was there to do.

And other marines and other family members of marines we talked to are just as committed to America's presence in Iraq and the marines fighting there. They say the way to honor those who died in Iraq is to keep fighting, even if it means more people dying.

“We have an obligation to see to it that their memory was respected and that their loss was not in vain,” says Captain Rob Crum.

But as more and more Americans die in Iraq. It's almost certain more and more Americans back home will start to ask how much longer will this take? How much longer will our men and women in uniform have to there?

You can find more information on U.S. casualties in Iraq at http://www.defendamerica.mil/fallen.html.