Posted on 05/04/2020 10:55:07 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
I in 10 of the 2,709,918 men who served in Vietnam became a casualty, either KIA, MIA, or WIA. If you break that rate down to units actually and continuously at the sharp end engaging the enemy, then that figure is far higher. I was a tank commander in Vietnam. The death rate among armored vehicle crewmen (enlisted men with MOS 11E10, 11E20, 11E40, and Officers with MOS 1203) killed in the Republic of Vietnam is 27% of the total of 2,720 men with that MOS who served. This amounts to a DEATH RATE for that MOS of 27%, and even though FAR MORE 11B (Infantry) were killed, the death RATE for infantry is much lower.
To try to compare a nation of 330,000,000 or so dying from an opportunistic virus that cannot even be seen with the death toll in Vietnam is utterly disingenuous. A damnable lie, actually.
1 in 10 Americans are NOT infected with the coronavirus.
Think about it, it’s a fair comparison.........communists responsible for both and both with CHINA
America has not won a war since WWII let alone DECLARED one. I would even suggest that America gave up way to much at the treaties. Liberals can’t fight war nor do they understand war.
It makes you realize just how pathetic the lefts continuous whining over the Vietnam war was during that era. Their politically motivated protest were essentially a ruse in an attempt to unseat Nixon. Instead, he won by one of the biggest vote majorities in 1972. Then they removed him with embarrassment... Thanks to a few misguided RINO’s who thought he would destroy the Republican party.
Democrats are hypocrites.. Always have been, always will be. That’s why their symbol is a Jackass.
America was in a recession in 60-61 and war is always good for the economy. Ike and Nixon warned Kennedy and Lyndon Blow Job about the dangers of Vietnam, especially after the French were driven out.
3,000 dead every day from abortion. That’s a Vietnam every 2 months. For 50 years.
It highlights the COVID-19 deaths at the expense of those who died during during Vietnam.
Other than a *number*, there is simply no comparison.
Irresponsible to compare the two.
Throw it back in their liberal faces.
Tell them, “The number of babies that have been aborted since 1973 is greater than the number of ALL men, women and children who died in six years of World War II, from 1939 - 1945.”
For sure it is an attempt to smear Trump with our defeat in Vietnam. But it is still pretty stupid. Also comparing deaths from a contagious disease to deaths from cancer, or accidents, or yes war. Even AIDS, which is contagious but not very easily.
Ahhh, the war that the dems got us into, huh?
Mark
How idiotic to compare the deaths from a war to the deaths from a disease. Why not bring up the 2004 tsunami, that killed maybe 230,000? Or better yet, the Shaanxi earthquake of 1556 that killed some 820,000? Those have just about as much to do with COVID-19 as does the Vietnam War.
but the most wonderful thing about humble is he’s the only one!
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