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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (185253)	4/16/2006 9:53:43 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

t's not like the jolly 1950s and onwards occupations of Germany and Japan where the greatest dangers were getting overly excited about the wrong girl. Listen Maurice.. If there had been a communist insurgency within Germany and Japan as part of a super-power showdown between the US and USSR, the might have been just as many casualties. As it was, the Korean War cost the lives of 42,000 Americans over the same span of time (deaths and MIA), along with over 2,000 non-battle deaths, all in roughly the same span of time (3 years) we've been in Korea. Was that war "worth it"? Btw, we can recount the American casualties that occurred between D-Day and the fall of Berlin.. We had 80,000 casualties during the Battle of the Bulge Dec, 44 through Jan, 05, alone. Ambrose, I recall, provided a casualty list for the major units that fought in France over that 12 month period in his book, "Citizen Soldiers". Many US devisions suffered 120% casualty rates during that short year, even though only 15% of total divisional manpower consisted of combat arms. Was the destruction of Hitler's Germany worth it? As for Vietnam, you can review the stats for yourself: vhfcn.org If you want to talk "decimation", I suggest you make your comparisons to those conflicts. Hawk