A Little Perspective

Published: November 16, 2007, 12:21 am

I keep seeing a little ticker on blogs that counts the number of US Servicemen killed in Iraq and I recall thinking about a year ago, "We lost more than that on D Day." Now I've studied enough history to know that troop losses in Iraq are in fact tiny compared to most of the other wars we fought. In fact the current losses in American troops don't equal the losses of certain single battles fought in previous wars. Below are a few examples:Battle of Shiloh 1754 Union Soldiers killed 1728 Confederate soldiers killedBattle of Gettysburg 3,155 killed Union Soldiers Killed 4,708 Confederate Soldiers killedCivil War 110,000 Union Soldiers killed 93,000 Confederate troops killedWorld War I 5,525,000 Allied troops killedBattle of the Bulge 19,276 American Soldiers deadBattle of Normandy Beach 1,465 American troops deadWWII 407,300 American soldiers killedKorean War 36,516 Americans troops killedTet Offensive 6,328 Allied Troops KilledViet Nam 58,209 American soldiers killed (200,000+

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