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Over 100,000 US Vietnam
Vet Suicides To Date!
7-18-7
VIETNAM STATISTICS
This list tells it all. These statistics could change many hearts. Pass this on.
We, the U.S. have lost over 158,000 American lives to the Vietnam war and that count is still rising.
Approx 58,000 in Vietnam. 100,000 or more to suicide and most of those occurred after the men came home.
This accurate accounting gives us persepective on the cost of current and future wars.
from
Fallen Leaves, Broken Lives
By Edward Tick
Utne magazine
January-February 2005 Issue
CASUALTIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR
THERE ARE MORE THAN 58,000 NAMES OF AMERICAN DEAD ON THE WALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., BUT THE TOTAL COSTS ARE STILL BEING TALLIED.
THE PEOPLE
American Veterans Vietnamese People
In Country 2.5 million est. 1970 pop. 41 million
In Combat 1.5 million unknown
Killed in Action 58,000+ 2.5 million
Wounded 300,000+* 4 million
Missing in Action 2,000+ 250,000
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 1.5 million+ unknown
Suicides 100,000+ unknown
Homeless 150,000 nightly unknown
Boat People 0 1 million (Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia)
Lost at Sea 0 500,000
Disabled Street People unknown 3 million
New Agent Orange Deformities unknown 35,000/year
Peacetime Deaths Due to Unexploded Bombs & Mines 0 50,000+ (Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia)
Maimed by Bombs and Mines (1975-98) 0 67,000
Reeducation Camps 0 400,000 in 100 camps
* includes U.S: 74,000 quadriplegics and multiple amputees
THE VIETNAMESE LAND
Total Herbicides Used 19.4 million gallons
Agent Orange Sprayed 11.7 million gallons
Mangrove Forest Destroyed 60%
Forest & Jungle Destroyed 18%
Cultivated Land Destroyed 8%
U.S. BOMBING
8 billion+ pounds (4 times more than WWII total; equal to 600 Hiroshima-size bombs)
23 million bomb craters
2,257 U.S. aircraft lost
Over 4,000 of toal 5,778 villages bombed, 150 completely destroyed
DESTROYED
10 million cubic meters of dikes
815 hydroelectric works
1,100 lake embankments
8 forestries
48 agricultural research centers with 6,000 agricultural machines and 46,000 water buffalo
400 factories
18 power stations
13,000 boats
15,100 bridges
2,923 high schools and universities
350 hospitals
1,500 maternity hospitals
484 churches
465 pagodas
240,540 thatched huts
TOTAL COST TO THE UNITED STATES:
$925 Billion
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re: Iraq it's not really over when the fat lady sings
Winkle, hi...
I'm very very sorry for all this...
You are also good with the numbers. This time you cover all sides of the distroying and losses labor.
On newspaper I read that the US are expending US$ 480,000.00/minute in Iraq...
Can this be true?
regs. M.
I'm very very sorry for all this...
You are also good with the numbers. This time you cover all sides of the distroying and losses labor.
On newspaper I read that the US are expending US$ 480,000.00/minute in Iraq...
Can this be true?
regs. M.
