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To: Ilaine who wrote (135259)	6/1/2004 11:39:28 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Quick-and-dirty on Vietnam war statistics. Total population of the United States in 1965, 195 million give or take. Total population of the United States in 1970, 205 million give or take. Total number of people serving in the US military during the entire Vietnam War era (August 1964 - January 1973), almost 9 million. Total number of people serving in the US military actually in Vietnam during the war, 2.5 million, or slightly more than 1% of the total population. Of those, 47 thousand killed, 313 thousand wounded, approximately 10% of those who served, 1/10 of 1% of the total US population. Total number of men avoiding the draft through the use of deferments, 15 million. No idea how many were given 4fs. These days, it's become unpopular to say you opposed the Vietnam war, or to blame "communists" for "misleading" you. That's ok, I don't cut my jib to go along with current fashions. Whatever the justification for the war, it was stupidly fought, just as Korea was stupidly fought, just as Gulf War I was stupidly fought. Some wars are stupider than others.