Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Putting KIAs in proper perspective

From RWN:

1,002: Soldiers killed in Iraq

2,403: Americans killed at Pearl Harbor
2,976: Americans lost on 9/11
9,386: American soldiers killed taking Normandy
12,500: American soldiers killed taking Okinawa in WW2
24,000: American soldiers on both sides killed at the battle of Antietam during the Civil War

54,246: American troops killed in Korea
58,198: American soldiers killed in Vietnam
116,516: American soldiers killed in World War 1
295,000: American soldiers killed in World War 2
498,322+: Union & Confederate troops killed in the Civil War

Fraters Libertas has a similar breakdown here.

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