Quote:US War Deaths per Day by Conflict (War, Battle) and How Iraq Compares
And yet there is no shortage of those who 'show up'. My own theory is that NO 18-20 year envisions the possibility of his or her own personal destruction at that age.
Most of the kids of my generation saw this 1930 movie when it aired in the mid 1950's. To little effect; no shortage of 'fresh meat' for the 'next round'.
3D 1080p WW1 Assault - All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHuNQER_8rI
Just a spirited football game with shot, shell and cold steel. Wait for the '2nd half' counterattack.
Dulce et Decorum Est pro patria mori, which is a line taken from the latin Odes of Roman poet Horace, means It is sweet and proper to die for one's country. In his poem, Wilfred Owen takes the opposite stance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXwJzLsZrCo
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-...lfred-Owen [/i]
Posted on: 1 March 2008 / Categories: Global Politics, War
These should be in order chronologically and it’s admittedly a little weighted toward the Pacific Theater of World War II. In case you don’t want to read to the bottom, Iraq: 3,973 deaths in 1,806 days, 2.2 deaths/day.
http://www.bkdunn.com/2008/03/us-war-deaths-p...-compares/
If you need a finer point put on this: the number of American troops killed in our (almost) five-year adventure in Iraq is about the same as the number of American troops who died in the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) IN ONE DAY.
Given that today’s US population is just over 9x that of the 1860 population, the current Iraq conflict has about 1/15,000th the relative death intensity of the Battle of Antietam (= 1 / ((3654.0 deaths/day / 2.2 deaths/day ) * (303.1 million population / 33.4 million population)) = 1/15,072 ).
Or, other way around, the Battle of Antietam was relatively 15,000 times as bad as the current Iraq war (in terms of death rate and impact on the relative population).
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