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Old 03-18-2004, 11:20 AM
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in the article{...}...it says, as the chart indicates, 26,800,000 men came of draft age between Aug. 4, 1964 ( Tonkin Gulf ) and Mar. 28, 1973, when the last troops left. 51,000 died...17,000 from gunshot wounds, 7,500 from multiple frgamentation wounds, 6,750 from grenades and mines, 10,500 from other enemy action,
8,000 from nonhostile causes, and 350 by suicide. Another 270,000 were wounded, 21,000 of whom were disabled. Roughly 5,000 lost one or more limbs in the war. A half million were branded as criminals, more than two million served in the war zone, and millions more had their futures shaped by going to war".......{...}
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