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Topic Started: May 27 2011, 11:06 PM (140 Views)
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50,000 American Servicemen served in Vietnam between 1960 and 1964.
9,087,000 military personnel served on active duty during the official Vietnam era (Aug.5, 1964-May 7, 1975).
3,403,100 (including 514,300 offshore) personnel served in the Southeast Asia Theater (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, flight crews based in Thailand, and sailors in adjacent South China sea waters).
7,484 American women served in Vietnam. 6,250 were nurses.
8 nurses died-1 was killed in action.
Vietnam Veterans represented 9.7% of their generation.
240 men were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam era.
Hostile deaths: 47,378
Non-hostile deaths: 10,800
Missing in action: 2,338
POWs: 766 (114 died in captivity).
Wounded in action: 303,704
Severely disabled: 75,000--23,214 100% disabled; 5,283 lost limbs; 1,081 sustained multiple amputations.
Married men killed: 17,539
Men under the age of 21 killed: 61%
Average age of men killed: 22.8 years.
Highest political office attained by a Vietnam veteran to date: Vice President Al Gore.
Most successful Vietnam veteran/businessman to date: Frederick Smith of Federal Express.
79% of the men who served in Vietnam had a high school education or better when they entered the military service.
The suicide rate of Vietnam veterans has always been well within the 1.7% norm of the general population.
97% of Vietnam-era veterans were honorably discharged.
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I thought Saving Private Ryan was a pretty good war movie.
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Three Kings
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May 28 2011, 11:04 AM
Three Kings
Yes it is a good movie
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