Mike Dowty: Reflections on war casualties, politics, Iraq and Bush

Posted 5/29/04

Between 1775 and 1783, some 217,000 patriotic Americans joined a war for Independence. Of those, 4,435 lost their lives and 6,188 were wounded. That is a casualty rate of 4.9 percent. The …

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