Almost 3,000 men and women from our great country have died in Iraq. I have heard that this is too great a price to pay. With that said I wanted to offer some statistics.
Civil War: 618,000 total dead, 203,000 of them in combat.
World War I: 126,200 Americans died, total deaths from all participants 15,596,071.
World War II: 418,500 Americans died, total deaths from all participants 62,537,400
Vietnam: 47,378 KIA + 10,824 non-hostile deaths for 58,202 American deaths. 1,100,000 total death from all participants.
Korean War: 54,229 Americans died (my grandfather received a purple heart), 285,241 total deaths from all participants.
No those figures are not typos and while they may not be 100% accurate, based on my hasty research, they certainly paint the price of freedom. I would say that the main difference now would be the extended media coverage which focuses on the negative aspects of what is happening. Let us not dishonor the tens of thousands who have died in the past by pretending our generation is more precious or important than those men and women who died before us.
1 comment:
Great last sentence. Well put.
The difference between this war and wars past, like you said, is the media coverage. Instead of getting battlefield news that is months, weeks, or days old, we are getting news that is seconds old. We get a one at a time body count, in stead of hundreds at one time. Seemingly miniscule, but it makes a big difference.
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