THE TOTAL TALLY OF VIETNAM
WHAT A MISERY THAT WAR WAS!Sure we had a lot of fun us hippies at home singing "I won't go." and
anti-war pickets (as we had a draft and kids today, they
just don't take to that draft thing.) But for a more accurate
picture of the VIETNAM WAR READ A TRUE HISTORIAN
FIRST, See famed journalist Seymour Hersh talking about it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25439.htmGO make tea for the first 11 minutes of the video.
He comes in at the llth minute, oddly enough but then you
want to start LISTENING REAL WELL.He mentions atrocities committed by U.S. forces in Vietnam -
that he witnessed. Apparently the US forces never figured
out who was strafing them. Snipers would work them over
all day and all night long. They'd go to look, just find alot
of peasants in a village. Couldn't find the guns. This
drove them nuts so they started killing peasants. WHOLE
villages full of them. Of course by the END OF the WAR
they found out that the Viet Cong soldiers lived in tunnels
underground. As big as the villages above ground!
But until they figured that out, The GI's over there went nuts.
GENOCIDE everywhere. But before you click on
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25439.htmREAD the SECOND HISTORIAN & THESE VIETNAM STATISTICS
This list tells it all. These statistics could change many hearts.
Pass this on.We, the U.S. have lost over 158,000 American lives to the Vietnam
war and that count is still rising.Approx 58,000 in Vietnam. 100,000 or more to suicide and most of
those occurred after the men came home.
Over 100,000 US Vietnam Vet Suicides To Date!
This accurate accounting gives us persepective on the cost of
current and future wars.Fallen Leaves, Broken Lives
By Edward Tick
Utne magazine
January-February 2005 Issue
CASUALTIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR
THERE ARE MORE THAN 58,000 NAMES OF AMERICAN DEAD ON THE WALL IN
WASHINGTON, D.C., BUT THE TOTAL COSTS ARE STILL BEING TALLIED.
Vietnamese People 2.5 million estimated murdered, mostly civilians. 1970 pop. 41 million
In Combat 1.5 millionAmericans Killed in Action 58,000 GI's estimated, versus their 2.5 million
American Wounded 300,000+ versus their 4 million
* includes U.S: 74,000 quadriplegics and multiple amputeesMissing in Action 2,000+ versus their 250,000
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 1.5 million+ amt of THEM, well figure is unknown
Suicides 100,000+ relative to them, figure unknown
Homeless 150,000 unknown if they went that way
Boat People 1 million (Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia)
Lost at Sea 500,000, whole families. I knew a family of boat people personally.
Disabled Street People in AMERICA, puhlenty. 3 million.
New Agent Orange Deformities here we have explosion of birth anomalies. There, 35,000/year
Peacetime Deaths Due to Unexploded Bombs & Mines here none. THERE? 50,000+
(Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia) Maimed by Bombs and Mines (1975-98) 67,000
Reeducation Camps by Kymer Rouge commie types: 400,000 in 100 camps
THE VIETNAMESE LAND
Total Herbicides Used 19.4 million gallons
Agent Orange Sprayed 11.7 million gallons
Mangrove Forest Destroyed 60%
Forest & Jungle Destroyed 18%
Cultivated Land Destroyed 8%U.S. BOMBING
8 billion+ pounds (4 times more than WWII total; equal to 600
Hiroshima-size bombs)
23 million bomb craters
2,257 U.S. aircraft lost
Over 4,000 of toal 5,778 villages bombed, 150 completely
destroyedDESTROYED
10 million cubic meters of dikes
815 hydroelectric works
1,100 lake embankments
8 forestries
48 agricultural research centers with 6,000 agricultural
machines and 46,000 water buffalo
400 factories
18 power stations
13,000 boats
15,100 bridges
2,923 high schools and universities
350 hospitals
1,500 maternity hospitals
484 churches
465 pagodas
240,540 thatched hutsTOTAL COST TO THE UNITED STATES:
$925 Billion (Wars were much cheaper then.)* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Edward Tick collected these statistics by searching history books,
newspapers, and archives, and interviewing survivors and scholars
throughout the United States and Southeast Asia. Following is a partial list of his
sources. In the United States: Disabled American Veterans; The New York
Times; Hell, Healing and Resistance by Daniel Hallock; The Vietnam War: A
History in Documents, by Young, Fitzgerald & Grunfel; Webster's New World
Dictionary of the Vietnam War. In Viet Nam: Army Museum, Ha Noi; Hong Ngoc
(Rosy Jade) Humanity Center, Sao Do; Research Center for Gender, Family,
and Environment in Development, Ha Noi; Women's Museum, Ha Noi; War Remnants
Museum, Ho Chi Minh City.EDWARD TICK (left) is director and senior psychotherapist of the
Sanctuary: A Center for Mentoring the Soul in Albany, New York
(www.mentorthesoul.com). He is known for his groundbreaking work with Viet
Nam veterans -- as well as veterans of World War II, Korea, El Salvador,
Lebanon, the first Gulf War, and the present war in Iraq -- suffering from
post-traumatic stress disorder. The author of The Practice of Dream
Healing (Quest, 2001), he has two books : The Golden
Tortoise Viet Nam Journeys (Red Hen, April 2005) and War and the Soul (Quest,
November 2005). Tick recently presented his work at the Bioneers Conference, an
annual gathering of those who seek "visionary & practical solutions for
restoring the earth and people" in Marin, California. To read about the
work of other Bioneers, go to www.utne.com/bioneers.<--- BACK TO THE WAR INDEX