Never, never thought I'd be riled over your digesting the news and presenting it to us on a silver platter, but - this is absolutely over the top!!
Scrambling for stuff on Chuckie Cheese Hagel, didja see THIS??
La Chaz, forhevinsake, served in Nam, John, just like Kerry!
Decorated, man, and you didn't salute him, actually or symbolically, even one time!
"military service: served with U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1968,
receiving two Purple Hearts, other decorations;"
There in 1968, he certainly was well aware of the Statistics on Record....
I Asked Jeeves, and here's the skinny:
Over a 90 month period, the Nam
Deaths in Combat
417,369
Deaths from Other (disease, accidents):
10,799
Wounded
153,303
Breaking down the Killed in Action:
there was an average [over 90 months) of....
526 a month
Yeah, sure - - we're edging *closer to that* every danged decade
we spend in that quagmire in Iraq (just like the Balkans?).
That's prolly because there is no Ho Chi MinnyHaHa,
Saddam sadly quitting his bloody iron fist mission
and cowering in a hole in the ground...
Think we can salvage this, John...find a Chuckie Cheese restaurant
and pose with him like this happy little fella - - 
autograph it, and send it to Hagel the Hero....
That oughta save your reputation, and teach ya
to not swat at a 
recipient.
(That'll make the indigestion worthwhile.)
(Think I'll go gaze at my Korean Conflict ribbon..:)
~ LadyX