Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2016

Memorial Day and somber numbers


Memorial Day is about remembering those who died in service to our country.

Not all conflicts are listed below and many more died serving America. Some numbers are estimates and may differ, depending on the sources, but the point is made.

US War for Independence 
6,800 to 8,000  
Another 17, 000 died from disease
More died in percentage of the population than other conflicts - 25 percent.

Civil War
620,000 to 750,000

World War I  - The Great War
110,000-116,000 
(Great Britain lost more than  900,000; France lost one in four of its male population, thus its reluctance to get involved in WWII)

World War II
About 407,000

Korean War
54,246

Vietnam
58,209

Afghanistan and Iraq
About 7,000 military and 
About 8,000 contractors, according to Watson Institute, Brown University


Tags: US Military deaths, Memorial Day