Another perspective on the many Americans who have died in war fighting for America.
Note: This chart shows only the deaths for those fighting on the Union side in the Civil War; the Confederacy suffered losses of 364,821.
Sources:
- George Mason University’s History News Network: How Many American Troops Have Died in War?
- DefenseLink.mil: casualty.pdf
- OIF as of May 29, 2007, 10 a.m. EDT
- OEF as of May 19, 2007, 10 a.m. EDT
Update: Fusion Charts was taking too long to load, and then became unavailable. I’ve replaced it with a Zoho Sheet chart. I also updated the deaths for the Iraq War (OIF).
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What’s interesting about the war in Iraq is that while the deaths are much lower, the wounded are much higher than previous wars. Not to mention all the innocent civilians being slaughtered.
It’s a strange strange world we live in.
I guess war is war is war.