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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (60298)	6/22/2007 1:29:31 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 90947

I'd like to know the number of casualties after day 1. I didn't just pull 40k out of thin air

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (60298)	6/26/2007 4:17:50 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Putting War Casualties In Perspective In Politics, War On Terror Say Anything An interesting tid-bit of historical information from Wikipedia: <<< Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan. To the present date, all the American military casualties of the sixty years following the end of World War II — including the Korean and Vietnam Wars — have not exceeded that number. In 2003, there were still 120,000 of these Purple Heart medals in stock. There are so many in surplus that combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan are able to keep Purple Hearts on-hand for immediate award to wounded soldiers on the field. >>> Glenn Reynolds responds: And at current rates we’ll still be using them for decades. It would seem that way. It’s amazing how warped our view of casualties in this modern era of warfare has become thanks to sensationalist journalism and agenda-driven politicians doing their best to make the Iraq/Afghanistan wars sound as bad as possible to serve their own purposes. It’s quite true that this store of purple hurts intended for soldiers potentially wounded in just one of the final invasions of WWII will last our current military, well, decades. It really does put the “terrible cost” of the Iraq war the left-wingers are always harping about into perspective feeds.feedburner.com en.wikipedia.org instapundit.com