\nWith Memorial Day just past, I thought posting these statistics might be of interest.<\/p>\n
\tVietnam Veteran Statistics<\/p>\n
\tA little history most people will never know.<\/p>\n
\tInteresting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall<\/p>\n
\t"Carved on these walls is the story of America , of a continuing quest to preserve both Democracy and decency, and to protect a national treasure that we call the American dream." ~President George Bush<\/p>\n
\tSomething to think about – Most of the surviving Parents are now Deceased.<\/p>\n
\tThere are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.<\/p>\n
\tThe names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 37 years since the last casualties.<\/p>\n
\tBeginning at the apex on panel 1E and going out to the end of the East wall, appearing to recede into the earth (numbered 70E – May 25, 1968), then resuming at the end of the West wall, as the wall emerges from the earth (numbered 70W – continuing May 25, 1968) and ending with a date in 1975. Thus the war’s beginning and end meet. The war is complete, coming full circle, yet broken by the earth that bounds the angle’s open side and contained within the earth itself.<\/p>\n
\tThe first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u00c2\u2022 There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 8,283 were just 19 years old.<\/p>\n
\t The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam .<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam .<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 54 soldiers on attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia .
\n\t I wonder why so many from one school.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War;
\n\t 153 of them are on the Wall.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation.
\n\t There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 The Marines of Morenci – They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest . And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci’s mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 The Buddies of Midvale – LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 (TET) ~ 245 deaths.<\/p>\n
\t\u00c2\u2022 The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 – 2,415
\n\t casualties were incurred.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.<\/p>\n
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