A little history most people will never know.

Interesting Veterans Statistics from the Vietnam Memorial Wall

There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.

The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date
the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.

The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S.
Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with
that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7,
1965.

There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.

39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.

8,283 were just 19 years old.

The largest age group, ?1? 3,103 were 18 years old.

12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.

5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.

One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.

997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam.

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.

31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.

Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.

54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I wonder why so many from one
school.

8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.

244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.

Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.

West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians
on the Wall.

The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams
that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed
roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in
the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families,
the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on
Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.

The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and
lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived
only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to
Vietnam. In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on
Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than
24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor
Remembrance Day.

The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.

The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.

For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To
those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we
feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these
numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no
noble wars, just noble warriors.

Please pass this on to those who served during this time, and those who DO Care.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:15:08 -0400, John H.
wrote:

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.

Their last "scheduled" day anyway.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:46:00 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:15:08 -0400, John H.
wrote:

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.

Their last "scheduled" day anyway.

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Yes. Otherwise it's like saying that everyone who breaks a leg skiing
does it on the last run of the day.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 19:02:07 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:46:00 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:15:08 -0400, John H.
wrote:

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam.

Their last "scheduled" day anyway.

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Yes. Otherwise it's like saying that everyone who breaks a leg skiing
does it on the last run of the day.

Pretty much.
OTOH when I had my big crash at Crystal Mountain, I still had to go up
on the lift one more time with 2 black eyes and a bloody nose. One guy
said "You do know when to quit".
The problem was I was staying at the top of the mountain so I couldn't
quit till I got there.