My local news had a story about Memorial day and reported over 1,000,000 warriors had been killed in Americas wars. That figure seemed high to me. From Infoplease I found the following statistics:
America's Wars - Total
Military service during war - 42,348,460
Battle deaths - 651,008
Other deaths in service (theater) - 13,998
Other deaths in service (nontheater) - 525,256
Nonmortal woundings - 1,431,290
Living war veterans - 17,578,5004
Living veterans - 25,038,459
If one adds other deaths (nontheater) to battle deaths and other deaths (theater) the figure is indeed over 1 million, but that figure includes non-combat deaths. I regret so many have given there lives for our freedoms but am grateful for these fallen.
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