How many were killed in the VietNam war? How many years did it last? I can't believe I don't know tihs.
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Hard to say.  Before it was Viet Nam it was French Indo China and the Viet Namese (CONG) were called the Viet Minh after Ho Chi Minh.  Casualty estimates posted above do not include those killed in the Pre-USA invlovement may not include Americans that were there as "advisors", civilians, Cambodians, Laotians, Chinese, and Russians.  The numbers are apalling
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This may seem too simple, but the best way to find the information that you're looking for is to talk to other Vietnam Vets. Good places to find them is at a local VFW or a Veteran's hospital. \n\nMy father server in Vietnam as well, and has only recently opened up about what happened to him there. I've herd the same happening with many other Vietnam Vets too. Something about the recent Iraq War has triggered many of them to talk after more than 30 years of wanting to forget about what happened. \n\nI have family in Vietnam to include uncles that served on both sides of the war. They seem to be easier about letting the past go than the American veterans. One of my uncles served almost ten years in a communist prison, had all his arms and legs broken many times and had his eye ripped out of his head. Even he has let the war go into the past. \n\nAnotehr good place to look is the Internet. There are hundreds of Web sites that haev very good information about the Vietnam War with the ones supported by veterans having the most accurate information. Don't bother with the government supported sites - they're still lying aobut what happened. \n\nGood luck with your reseasrch!
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Interview a couple of veterans.  I was six or seven years old when hostilities started, but was involved in the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.\n  Go to Google.\n  Go to your local library.\n  Keep an open mind and realize that there are no truly unbiased opinions.  It was a war.  Don't let anybody white-wash it or demean those of us who went over there by referring to it as a 'conflict'.
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Yes, this link will take you to a site that breaks it down by killed in action and wounded in action, and is regularly updated:\n\nhttp://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/
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You just can't compare the Iraq war to the Vietnam war, those that say they are similar are ignorant. We went to Vietnam for little reason and in the Iraq war we had our reasons to attack. There were far more people killed in Vietnam then there have been in the Iraq war now and there will ever be. People want to be free in Iraq and that was not true in Vietnam.
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Try here:\n\nhttp://www.vietquoc.com/news2002/na020202.htm
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How do you think the Vietnam war ended.
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using you self centered logic, WW2 would have been over the day after it started. Yes any dead soldier is too many.using logic, we lost more than that in the first week of WW1, WW2,or Korean War, or Vietnam. I didn't know that winning a war meant nobody died ? Do you know how many dies on 9-11 ?\nIt still does not equal that number in one day on the number of Americans dead. How about how many died on the USS Cole ? Was that too many ? Its War !!!!!!!!!! it is all about killing! To act like these people that just want to kill us don't exist would be worst than war. Ask the Palestinians how the like their country ran by a terrorist group. This is a long war that we will be in. If we have the guts to finish it. if we don't then there will be another war and that would be worse. That will give the terrorist more time to get weapons into our country that will kill thousands more than what have died so far. \nAs far as millions of civilian dead, who's numbers are you using and who killed them. The terrorist , I know , blow up innocent civilians every day.\nHow many terrorists captured ? obviously not enough.But, any that we have captured, the world does not support us on it anyhow. \nHow many terrorist died ? Simple answer, not all of them yet !
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As an American living in Vietnam see this war is a tragic mistake, we are mired down in a quagmire, much worse than in the Vietnam War. You should see the poor people here with legs and arms missing begging on the street. Total Vietnamese killed about 300,000 no idea how many wounded. Our brave shoulders 55,000 and how many wounded. In Iraq they estimate 650,000 dead. For our brave 2,200 plus young boys that have died for a lost cause, hope Bush and his cronies sleep well.  America has a civil war going,  feel It's time the leadership of this country admit to their blunder, and lets go home.
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About 651,000 battle deaths. That number is only through the Gulf War so you probably need to add on another 3,000 or so for the wars in Afganistan and Iraq. The website below breaks it down by war.
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First off, for most of us WW2 took five years of actual fighting and then the cold war with its regional conflicts that followed went on for another Forty!\n\nAlso in that conflict the allies would lose the total number of casualties incurred in Iraq in a single day.\n\nThe war in Iraq was won.....It is the peace which is being lost.
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I can understand where you see the parallels. In America, we have become accustomed to quick, easy, almost bloodless victories. We love to turn on the evening news and watch another bridge get blown to pieces. I understand that you aren't talking about the amount of US casualties one or two above mentioned. I would have to say right now no, it's not another Vietnam.... Ask me again in a year.
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This is a tough question because the period of fighting goes back many years. Although I'm sure actual numbers are kept on such things, it would be a safe bet to say that thousands of people die on each side each year. The real concern, however, is the number of wounded, on both sides, which is a figure that definitely exceeds the number of deaths many times over. \n\nBesides this, there are deaths that result collaterally, i.e., deaths that occur as a result of this long drawn out problem. These, too, simply increase the total number of deaths substantially.
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If you find something please let me know, feel free to E-mail me, I'm in Vietnam for 19 Years, my Dad was in the war but do not know much about him, I do want to find some but do not know where to start.\nmailt4@yahoo.com
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Official figured from the Army on Vietnam service and ethnicity state the following:\n\n88.4% of the men who actually served in Vietnam were Caucasian, 10.6% (275,000) were black; 1% listed as others.\n\nIn the United States, according to the 1970 census, 87 percent of the population was categorized "white", 11.1 percent "black", and 5.9 percent "hispanic."\n\nIt would seem that "white" soldier were overrepresented by about 1 percent, "black soldiers" underrepresented by about .5 percent and hispanic soldiers by about 4 percent.  Of course, one has to assume error in both the census and the Army's tallies, so I would say that the ethnicity of the United States was probably well represented.  The socio-economic status of soliders was not, though.\n\nOther statistics:\n* 86.3% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasian (includes Hispanics); 12.5% (7,241) were black; 1.2% belonged to other races.\n* 170,000 Hispanics served in Vietnam; 3,070 (5.2% of total) died there.\n* 86.8% of the men who were killed as a result of hostile action were Caucasian; 12.1%\n (5,711)were black; 1.1% belonged to other races\n\n* 14.6% (1.530) of non-combat deaths were among blacks.\n* 34% of blacks who enlisted volunteered for the combat arms.\n* Overall, blacks suffered 12.5% of the deaths in Vietnam at a time when the percentage of blacks of military age was 13.5% of the total population.\n* Religion of Dead: Protestant--64.4%; Catholic--28.9%; other/none--6.7%. \n\nDisclaimer:taking advice from a person using Bubba as a screen name could be hazardous for your health. It has previously been known to impair judgement and result in unintended consequences and ugly scenes played out late at night in trailer parks.
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as of 01/24/2006 reported us death in iraq due to the conflict were 2237 more info\nhttp://icasualties.org/oif/
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Oh my Fing God. You bastard; you just personaly attacked a veteran with a simple question and called her bloodthirsty. less than 50,000 at most have died, check it, no where close to a million. most have died because terrorists keep blowing them selves  up in mosques and crowded market places. The point was; if you don't realy know ANYTHING about it you shoulden't whine about it