Skip to comments.
Sep 11, 2001, the SECOND bloodiest day in America (Behind the Battle of Antietam, 1863, 25k+ killed)
Fox News ^
| 11 SEP 01 - the SECOND bloodiest day in America
| dcbryan1
Posted on 09/11/2001 2:40:22 PM PDT by DCBryan1
Fox News was just on live with NYC official, and they expect 10k+ in fatalities.
This exceeds the bloodiest day in American History, the Battle of Antietam in 1863 during the American Civil War in which there were over 25,000 killed and three times as many wounded.
I think the D-Day invasion and Pearl Harbor, Tarawa, and Iwo Jima top off the next deadliest days in America...
This is a horrible day in America...but as always, we will prevail.
TOPICS: Announcements; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-29 last
To: BenR2
Union- 2010 killed, 9416 wounded, 1043 missing
Confederate- 1890 killed, 9770 wounded, 2304 missing.
21
posted on
09/11/2001 3:15:05 PM PDT
by
RedwM
To: RedwM
Today's casualty figures will probably surpass those of the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam, to you Yankee partisans). It may even rival our losses in the entire Vietnam War.
To: Taft in '52
It's been a pretty bad day for all of us, Reb.
23
posted on
09/11/2001 3:39:18 PM PDT
by
RedwM
To: DCBryan1
From
National Review Online (emphasis added):
The death toll of September 11 won't be known for some time it's too early even to have a rough estimate. "I have a sense it's a horrendous number of lives lost," said Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Yet it may be possible to grope toward putting the cost of human life into some kind of context. As the number of dead begins to emerge, consider the number of battle deaths the United States suffered in several of its major wars and battles.
Revolutionary War: 4,435
War of 1812: 2,260
Mexican War: 1,733
Battle of Antietam, the Civil War's bloodiest day: 4,710
Pearl Harbor: 2,403
Korean War: 33,651
To: DCBryan1
Thank you Demorat Senator Frank Church and your liberal Senate colleagues who thought back in the 70's that this world was really a Boy Scout Jamboree, that it was mean of us to spy on any other country, held open Senate hearings on our intelligence gathering capabilities giving away the identities of hundreds of those who had helped our information-gathering efforts and were later assassinated, badly crippled our abilities to persuade possible informants to ever trust us again, and set the Country up for the kind of tragedy we see today...Thank you...
To: BurkeanCyclist
Antietam was called the Bloodiest Day because it was a single day battle. Other Battles have been worse, but of multiple days in length.
26
posted on
09/11/2001 3:51:19 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: DCBryan1, conservative/not stupid
This was posted earlier
here:"fox news just reported the body count at this time is 100,000 people 55 Posted on 09/11/2001 10:03:50 PDT by conservative/not stupid"
I realize there is a lot of hysteria going on, however, there is a big difference between 10,000 and 100,000. It could well be that no one has any idea yet.
27
posted on
09/11/2001 3:56:21 PM PDT
by
2sheep
To: KC Burke
My point was the number. There is a significant difference between 25,000 and 4,710.
To: 2sheep
I would expect that the total will be between 10 and 15 thousand. Lots of people got out (despite the locked doors), but everyone above the fires were trapped, and likely hundreds or rescue workers outside of the buildings were killed. I expect that even some were killed when building 7 went down.
This is gonna have a real effect in addition to the terror effect and the direct deaths. Dean Witter had 20 stories worth of people, records, and equipment in the two towers. The Mercantile exchange, where most of the oil, gas, coal, copper, steel, aluminum, and other major resources are sold is in the WTC. This'll disrupt all of that until the alternate site gets set up...and we can be pretty much assured that that won't be at full capability.
29
posted on
09/11/2001 4:30:07 PM PDT
by
lepton
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-29 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson