Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Books, Movies, Food, Wine, and Whatever -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (2009)	9/11/2001 5:42:33 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 51706

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.

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (2009)	9/11/2001 5:56:54 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 51706

bomb them back to the 13th Century But that's where their mindset is. This atrocity was launched and completed on (over) US soil. Mass retaliation abroad is what they expect - they're probably hoping for it. the response must be devastating - but civilised, precise, and ... considered. Find the leaders. Seize them. And show that it is the generals, not the footsoldiers, that will feel the full weight of the sword of justice. It's stateless criminals that have called war on the West. Treat them as such.. Don't try destroying any country which might harbour those who sympathise... that can and will make things much, much worse...