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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (2009)	9/11/2001 5:42:33 PM
From: X Y Zebra	of 51710

Here are statistics from the Combat Area Casualty File (CACF) as of November 1993. The CACF is the basis for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall): Average age of 58,148 killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years. (Although 58,169 names are in the Nov. 93 database, only 58,148 have both event date and birth date. Event date is used instead of declared dead date for some of those who were listed as missing in action) [CACF] Deaths Average Age Total 58,148 23.11 years Enlisted 50,274 22.37 years Officers 6,598 28.43 years Warrants 1,276 24.73 years E1 525 20.34 years 11B MOS 18,465 22.55 years Five men killed in Vietnam were only 16 years old. [CACF] The oldest man killed was 62 years old. [CACF] 11,465 KIAs were less than 20 years old. [CACF] Myth: The average age of an infantryman fighting in Vietnam was 19. vhfcn.org Estimate in the NYC terrorist attack: +/- 10,000 deaths in one morning.

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