Remembering

Major conflicts involving American warriors:

War                                                                                       Americans Killed

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)                          25,000 (low estimate)

American Civil War (1861-1865)                                        625,000 (420 deaths per day)

War of 1812 (1812-1815)                                                     15,000

Mexican-American War  (1846-1848)                                  13,283

World War I  (1917-1918)                                                  116,516 (279 deaths per day)

World War II  (1941-1945)                                                  405,399 (297 deaths per day)

Korean War (1950-1953)                                                       36,516 (45 deaths per day)

Vietnam War (1961-1975)                                                     58, 209 (11 deaths per day)

War on Terror (2001-present) Iraq and Afghanistan               6,717

Total American warriors killed in all conflicts, major and minor

                                (1775-present, 49  total internal and external conflicts)    1,321,612

Total American warriors wounded                                                                       1,531,036

Total American warriors missing                                                                              38,159

And today we still enjoy privileged lives in a free country.

Phil