-as of [27 JULY 2025]-
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-“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 / 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/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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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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👈👈👈☜*-AMERICAN ARMED FORCES-* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥