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Originally Posted by Peto
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Only 3,500 dead? Thats great! Talk about almost no casualties for going to war! That is a drop in the bucket!
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Tell that to my son who has to pick up pieces of his friends "no bigger that a hamburger" (his quote). Who has watched squad-mates die in a burning Humvee. Who has been twice wounded himself. And who has to face the reality of killing people.
That's Great? Support our troops you ain't.
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"Great" certainly wouldn't be my choice of words either but truth be told 3500 dead is just a small fraction of what every other war in our history would have cost us over this length of time. For example Vietnam averaged 9000 KIA per YEAR during Americas most active presence, or going back further we lost 3600 in just
one day at Antietam.
War will always be horrible, that's its very nature. There will never be a war where young men like your son don't have to watch their comrades die violently, but so far the butchers bill for this one has been comparatively cheap.