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A day to remember those who died in military service to our country:
CONFLICT
SPAN
CASUALTIES
American Revolutionary War
1775-1783
25,000
Northwest Indian War
1785-1795
~1,056
Quasi-War
1798-1800
514
War of 1812
1812-1815
~20,000
1st Seminole War
1817-1818
36
Black Hawk War
1832
305
2nd Seminole War
1835-1842
1,535
Mexican-American War
1846-1848
13,283
3rd Seminole War
1855-1858
26
Civil War
1861-1865
~625,000
Indian Wars
1865-1898
919
Great Sioux War
1875-1877
314
Spanish-America War
1898
2,446
Philippine-American War
1898-1913
4,196
Boxer Rebellion
1900-1901
131
Mexican Revolution
1914-1919
~35
Haiti Occupation
1915-1934
148
World War 1
1917-1918
116,516
North Russia Campaign
1918-1920
424
American Exped. Force Siberia
1918-1920
328
Nicaragua Occupation
1927-1933
48
World War 2
1941-1945
405,399
Korean War
1950-1953
36,516
Vietnam War
1955-1975
58,209
El Salvador Civil War
1980-1992
37
Beirut
1982-1984
266
Grenada
1983
19
Panama
1989
40
Persian Gulf War
1990-1991
258
Operation Provide Comfort
1991-1996
19
Somalia Intervention
1992-1995
43
Bosnia
1995-2004
12
NATO Air Campaign Yugoslavia
1999
20
Afghanistan (ongoing)
2001-
2,145(11/2012)
Iraq
4,486May their sacrifice never be forgotten.
May no American serviceman's sacrifice be in vain.
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GW, I came across a nasty post on a site called Dump DC. I will provide a link below. This is from some jerk who claims that our soldiers died in vain and does a similar number breakdown that you provided. I was surprised to read posting of support for this claim by people who appear to be have served - curious about how you would answer such people or would you just shun them.
http://amapublishing.com/dumpdc/memorial-day-2013-how-about-a-new-meaning/
The guy makes so many outrageous points that it would take me hours to respond to them individually. The bottom line, our nation calls on our soldiers to be the point of the spear of our foreign policy. Foreign policy is aimed at shaping the world in a way that is in our best interests. The stakes for us to go to war must be very significant. (And if we must fight a war, better to do it on foreign soil.)
All of that said, the writer of the piece you link has no respect for our nation, nor any belief that our nation is a force for good in the world. The most ridiculous of his points regards the civil war. We would not have been a nation today without the civil war, and without the war, it is at least possible that the scourge of slavery might still exist on the shores of our continent.
This is the teaching of Karl Marx - that everything done by the West is evil, while giving a pass to the most scurrilous and murderous nations and leaders our planet has ever seen. The author you cite is steeped in it. But to put that in context, he lives in a nation that was:
- founded in the Revolutionary War and, as a result of that war, was, until recently, the single greatest beacon of hope and freedom this world has ever seen.
- defended from being extinguished in the war of 1812.
- a nation that survived its penultimate test during the civil war, a war fought in large measure over the scourge of slavery
- multiple wars with Indians who were predatory and brutal until they lost, and then history was largely rewritten
- the Spanish American war which put an end to European colonization in our hemisphere
- WWI and WWII which stopped Germany, socialists and communists from overrunning the entirety of Europe, among many other things.
Etc., etc. Have to run off or would write much more. Bottom line, every one of those wars he cites have had a tremendous impact on our nation and the world. We exist today because of them. If he feels that they were unnecessary, the joker really needs to be living in some place far more peaceful, like Cuba, Venezuela or China.
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