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A dose of perspective from The American Patriot's Almanac, my Christmas gift from Rachel, Jason, Baby Reg', and Gid the Kid:
Conflict: U.S. Military Deaths*
Revolutionary War (1775-1783).......25,000
War of 1812 (1812-1815)..............20,000
Mexican War (1846-1848).............13,300
Civil War (1861-1865)
..........Union.........................360,000
..........Confederate.................260,000
..........Gettysburg (Jul 1-3, 1863)....5,755-7655**
..........Antietam (Sep 17, 1862)......3,654**
Spanish-American War (1898)..........2,500
World War I (1917-1918).............116,500
World War II (1941-1945)............405,400
Korean War (1950-1953)..............36,600
Vietnam War (1964-1973).............58,200
Persian Gulf War (1990-1991).............380
Afghanistan (2001- ).......................450***
Iraq War (2003- )........................4,100***
*Includes battlefield and other deaths, such as soldiers who died of disease. Because official records may be incomplete, esp. prior to WWI, military death figures are estimates.
**from this outstanding website, esp. if you're spending Thanksgiving 2009 in Gettysburg: http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/gettysburg/prelude.aspx
***Approx. military deaths as of June 2008
To our veterans & their wives: thank you for serving.
MTH
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17 hours ago
1 comments:
Mike, check your numbers on Antietam. 17 Sept 1862 was the bloodiest day in American history - over 23,000 casualties (Union + Confed). I wrote a poem about the day I spent at the battlefield.
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