{"id":2501,"date":"2014-05-27T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2014-05-28T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:46:49","slug":"chart-of-the-week-remembering-the-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/05\/27\/chart-of-the-week-remembering-the-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Week – Remembering the Fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following chart is reproduced from the relevant wiki<\/a> under the under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Total American Deaths by War<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American Civil War<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
625,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
World War II<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
405,399<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
World War I<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
116,516<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vietnam<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
58,151<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Korean War<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
36,516<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
American Revolutionary War<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
25,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
War of 1812<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
15,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mexican American War<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
13,283<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
War on terror* present<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
6,717<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Philippine\u2013American War<\/td>\n\n
\u00a0\u2003<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
4,196<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n

I do think it makes a fair bit of sense to categorize the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts together here, given their overlap in justification (however well- or ill-founded) as part of a Global War on Terror.<\/p>\n

Aggregate statistics are so bloodless that they made it easy to forget the pain and grief associated with each individual life snuffed out, and while I’m not in a good place to compensate for that here, it is worth bearing in mind. These data are offered merely to provide a sense of historical scale and perspective. Naturally, I originally meant to do this on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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