(Non-political) Vietnam War Stats

[Nefarious]

God Bless West Virginia.

Montani Semper Liberi

[USRanger]

    I started this thread because I wanted to share these stats with everyone that's my age & younger who wasn't alive at the time.  No more arguing please.  I'd like to keep this civil and open, because this is something that peeps my age & younger weren't around for.  I've fought and bled in two wars and lost many friends, but for the U.S. to lose 58,000 soldiers in a war is something so alien to me.  I just can't imagine what it was like during WW1, WW2, Korea & VietNam to see body counts this huge.  Nowadays, losing 10 soldiers in one day is a huge amount.  That is nothing in the former wars.  We would lose that many in seconds in the previous wars.  I just can't wrap my head around that even though I knew it happened.  It's just crazy.

[Fish42]

   I started this thread because I wanted to share these stats with everyone that's my age & younger who wasn't alive at the time.  No more arguing please.  I'd like to keep this civil and open, because this is something that peeps my age & younger weren't around for.  I've fought and bled in two wars and lost many friends, but for the U.S. to lose 58,000 soldiers in a war is something so alien to me.  I just can't imagine what it was like during WW1, WW2, Korea & VietNam to see body counts this huge.  Nowadays, losing 10 soldiers in one day is a huge amount.  That is nothing in the former wars.  We would lose that many in seconds in the previous wars.  I just can't wrap my head around that even though I knew it happened.  It's just crazy.

I would just like to point out, that if the stats for one side is important to learn then the stats from the other-side and civilians should also be just as important. no?

[USRanger]

Sure they are.  I fought and killed a lot of hajjis in two different wars, but that doesn't mean I didn't have respect for them.  They were very good guerrilla fighters and showed just as much bravery in firefights as my soldiers did.  Iraq was a weird one because the enemy were civilians, mixed with some soldiers from the old Iraqi army.  I've never been in a gun fight with an enemy in a uniform now that I think about it.

[Skuzzy]

This is simply not going to end well. regardless of the intent.