The average age of the 58,148 killed in Vietnam was 23.11 years (Although 58,169 names are in the Nov. 93 database, only 58,148 have both event date and birth date. Event date is used instead of declared dead date for some of those who were listed as missing in action). Deaths A...
On a human level, the war was disastrous—an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians were killed, and over 1 million Vietnamese soldiers lost their lives. Over 2.7 million Americans served in the war and 58,318 died, with thousands more going on to suffer from the lifelong impacts of pos...
After seeing their comrades killed by booby traps, there was a temptation for the patrol to take it out on the next village they arrived at. By doing so they increased the peasants hostility towards the Americans and made it more difficult for them to support the South Vietnamese government...
On a human level, the war was disastrous—an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians were killed, and over 1 million Vietnamese soldiers lost their lives. Over 2.7 million Americans served in the war and 58,318 died, with thousands more going on to suffer from the lifelong impacts of pos...
Two babies with birth defects caused by Agent Orange exposure are abandoned at a temple in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, July 25, 2011. /CFP Decades after the war, people in Southeast Asia are still getting killed by detonation of live bombs and mines left in the region during war time. ...
its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians...
Five Americans killed in Vietnam were 16 years or younger. The youngest was Private First-Class Dan Bullock, an African-American from North Carolina. Bullock enlisted in 1968 with a falsified birth certificate. He was killed three weeks after arriving in Vietnam, at the age of 15.US soldier...
Today, the Wall stands as a highly respected icon of American sacrifice that is visited by millions each year. Since the names on the Wall are for those who were killed or missing in action, or who later died from their injuries that were a result of their service - veterans, like my ...
One was killed before the others were released; but the presence of the group, in a dangerous Islamic country, where proselytizing Muslims is traditionally punishable by death, would seem very unwise in the first place. To be sure, Christian traditions of martyrdom do not involve killing others...
By November 1967, American troop strength in Vietnam was approaching 500,000 and U.S. casualties had reached 15,058 killed and 109,527 wounded. The Vietnam War was costing the United States some $25 billion per year, and disillusionment was beginning to reach greater sections of the taxpayi...