John Mortell’s blog :: Post #362 appearently… Violence in America – some numbers

{ 2007 05 16 }

Post #362 appearently… Violence in America – some numbers

As part of my exams I’m reading for American government. This is somewhat tangential but interesting;

”More Americans were killed by other Americans during the 20th century than died in the Spanish-American war (11,000 “deaths in service”), World War I (116,000 “deaths in service”), World War II (406,000 “deaths in service”), the Korean police action (55,000 “deaths in service”), and the Vietnam War (109,000 “deaths in service”) combined. (“Deaths in Service” statistics are greater than combat deaths and were used here to make the contrast between war and civilian interpersonal violence rates even clearer.)”

I forgot to title this the first time around. Ooops.

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