Those Vietnam War Veterans!!!

Raise a toast to them.  That was one long and hard war.

11.   11,465 were less than 20 years old.

12.  From 1957 to 1973, the National Liberation Front assassinated 36,725  South Vietnamese and abducted 58,499.  Death squads concentrated on leaders that included teachers and minor officials.

13.  The number of North Vietnamese who were killed  was approximately 500,000 to 600,000..  Casualties: 15 million.

14.  One out of every ten Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty.   Although the percentage who died  is similar to other wars, amputations or crippling wounds were 300 percent higher than in World War II.  75,000 Vietnam veterans are severely disabled.