[newzjunkey]

Most of the news outlets when they were not almost in glee over the 2000th soldier being killed stated that indictments would be handed down today.

The spin I caught being used last night was that 2000 was, "more soldier's deaths than all of the first four years of Vietnam," which immediately struck me as a Dem talking point.

There's a great deal of debate when Vietnam actually began. Many would put it as the Gulf of Tonkin but others would go as far back as the late 1940's and still others at places in between.

I've been trying to find pre annum KIA stats for Vietnam but haven't had much luck.

[jveritas]

Our real military actions in Vietnam started in 1965 and not in 1961 where we had mostly advisers and no actual combat from 1961-1965. Now from 1965 to 1968 we lost over 30000 troops. In one February week in 1967 we lost 542 troops.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I have yearly numbers for US "casualties" from 1965 to 1971, but KIA's are not singled out.