joanna bujes wrote:
One piece of info about American casualties that's not often reported is
that after the war ended as many former soldiers committed suicide as
were killed in battle.
An odd paragraph at the end of Elizabeth Becker's piece in today's
NYT comparing Vietnam Iraq:
One anomaly in
In the American involvement in the Vietnam war from 1964-1975, it is
generally accepted that of the American military personnel deployed, about
58,200 died, another 153,000 casualties were hospitalized with injuries, and
of those, about 100,000 were permanently disabled or disfigured. The number
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
In the American involvement in the Vietnam war from 1964-1975, it is
generally accepted that of the American military personnel deployed, about
58,200 died, another 153,000 casualties were hospitalized with injuries, and
of those, about 100,000 were permanently disabled or
