I keep seeing a little ticker on blogs that counts the number of US Servicemen killed in Iraq and I recall thinking about a year ago, "We lost more than that on D Day." Now I've studied enough history to know that troop losses in Iraq are in fact tiny compared to most of the other wars we fought. In fact the current losses in American troops don't equal the losses of certain single battles fought in previous wars. Below are a few examples:
Battle of Shiloh 1754 Union Soldiers killed 1728 Confederate soldiers killed
Battle of Gettysburg 3,155 killed Union Soldiers Killed 4,708 Confederate Soldiers killed
Civil War 110,000 Union Soldiers killed 93,000 Confederate troops killed
World War I 5,525,000 Allied troops killed
Battle of the Bulge 19,276 American Soldiers dead
Battle of Normandy Beach 1,465 American troops dead
WWII 407,300 American soldiers killed
Korean War 36,516 Americans troops killed
Tet Offensive 6,328 Allied Troops Killed
Viet Nam 58,209 American soldiers killed (200,000+ veterans still homeless 30 years later)
Iraq War to Date 3,865 American troops killed
Just food for thought.
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