How many vietnam soldiers went off the war?
From your use of the word “only” in your introductory statement, it appears that your mind is already made up as to what you intend to portray even though you do not know the numbers yet. Before you do that, you might want to look up some of the casualty rates for other wars. In any event, as others have said, it is hard to get definitive numbers on the Vietnam war. Roughly 3.5 million of us served in Vietnam and the surrounding areas during the war. Of those, 58 thousand were killed and a couple thousand were missing. In addition, depending on who you listen to, 150 to 300 thousand were injured. So, if you are trying for most sensational and worst case losses, you can say that roughly 350 thousand out of 3.5 million were killed or wounded. That boils down to something in the neighborhood of one in ten killed or wounded which is easier to understand for the typical math challenged anti-war type. Of course, if you really want to be negative, you can then throw in the unknown and highly
