Send me back in a time machine and I would tell Reagan to keep it up, I thought it turned out beautifully.
By the way, does anyone remember how many men we used to lose a year during the 1980s?
This is just the active duty.
U.S. Active Duty Military Deaths 1980-2006
1980 .... 2,392
1981 .... 2,380
1982 .... 2,319
1983 .... 2,465
1984 .... 1,999
1985 .... 2,252
There were a lot of Cold War casualties stretching back to 1945. Quite a number of sites discuss this and try to tabulate incidents.
http://membership-americancoldwarvets.org/cold-war-casualties