Page 35 - Stand Down Vietnam

“The military don't start wars.
Politicians start wars.”

General William Westmoreland
Commander of U.S. military operations – Vietnam
1964 – 1968

The Vietnam War encompassed the administrations of
eight United States Presidents and four prominent
Vietnamese leaders.

The so-called active fighting spanned for more than
twenty years; some believe the killing and the war date
back at least fifty years.

The statistics tell an extraordinary story:

WE LOST

“The total number of U.S. armed forces killed in
Vietnam in two decades of involvement was 58,253:

38,224 Army
14,844 Marines
2,586 Air Force
2,566 Navy
26 Merchant Marines
7 Coast Guard.

The total number of U.S. armed forces non-mortally
wounded in Vietnam was 53,363.”