(“casualties” includes “the dead” + “the wounded”)
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(but just HOW ‘wounded’ must one be to be worthy of the ‘casualty’ moniker?)
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in military usage
(a casualty is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, capture and desertion)
(in civilian usage, a casualty is a person who is killed, wounded or injured by some event, and is usually used to describe multiple deaths and injuries due to violent incidents or disasters)
(“casualties” is sometimes misunderstood to mean fatalities, but non-fatal injuries are also casualties)
(651,008 ‘battle deaths’ in all american wars)
(1.2 million total deaths)
(another source claims 1,354,664 american deaths)
(42 million american soldiers in history)
(2% of them died during their service)
(but that comes to 840,000)
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*REVOLUTIONARY WAR*
(25,000 american deaths)
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*CIVIL WAR*
(364,511 union deaths)
(299,524 confederate deaths)
(750,000+ total deaths)
(of US population of 31 million)
(~2.42% of US population died in the civil war)
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*WW2*
(405,399 american deaths)
(deadliest war for american soldiers)
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*SALVADORAN CIVIL WAR*
(1980 – 1992)
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“OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE”
(aka ‘war on isis’)
(who was responsible for that dopey name?)
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*RAID ON ‘YEMEN’*
(’29 JANUARY 2017′)
(3 wounded americans)
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👈👈👈☜*“AMERICAN ARMED FORCES”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥