June 5, 2000 - As the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War approaches, one key statistic is being reclarified— the one detailing just how many Americans were killed in the war. For years after the war ended in 1953, the Pentagon published a figure of 54,260. That combined ...
Focuses on the doubts concerning the total number of deaths of American soldiers in the Korean war. Objection of historian Allan R. Millet on the widely accepted figures used in the Statistical History of the United States; Source of suspicions; Figure presented by Millet. INSET: BLOOD, SWEAT,...
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The Cultural Revolution threw the entire country into economic and social chaos. By its end, in 1969, at least 500,000 Chinese,maybe as many as 8 million, died in the uprising. The Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, remain inerasable stains on Mao's rule. Tens of millions we...
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The gentle lull of "Sittin'" was a radical departure from Redding's Southern soul bombast, and perhaps a sign of what was to come if the singer hadn't died tragically in a plane crash. "That one song, we searched for a long time. We call it crossover music; so it could ...
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The lived reality of COVID-19 is that it has become a new cause of premature death. To get a sense of how many Americans have died so far from COVID-19, you would need to add up all the American deaths in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, as...