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packman

(16,296 posts) Tue May 27, 2014, 12:01 PM May 2014

Honored Dead

Bit surprised at the number of soldiers killed to garner our nation - thought it was much higher, seeing how the war lasted from 1775-1783 .

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Honored Dead (Original Post) packman May 2014 OP

The Civil War still leads... Demoiselle May 2014 #1

Demoiselle

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1. The Civil War still leads...

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Tue May 27, 2014, 03:46 PM

May 2014

Which makes tragic sense, since we lost on both sides. The WWI number is big, considering we were only in that one for about a year…
I hope we don't have to add new statistics to this terrible reckoning…
Ah me. When will we learn? (My "we" is global humanity.)

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