By: Amanda Yost

 During the Vietnam War many people died from all countries including America, South Vietnam, and North Vietnam.

 In 1968 Johnson made a speech on televised TV expressing his urge to stop the bombing in North Vietnam. The Ambassador for America was currently located in Paris trying to talk out a plan.

 The couple is carrying their babies away from the napalm bombing.  Every day no matter what bombing or what spree there was that day, more and more citizens and soldiers were being killed.

Year of Death Number Killed 1956– , , , , , , , – ,178

South Vietnamese military deaths Year Regul ar RF/P F ParaTotal 19664,4187,535-11, ,1106,606-12, ,93011,3933,59227, ,65210,2862,89521, ,64711,7381,96123, ,86413, , , ,587

 These three soldiers are resting outside their bunker in 1968, this was the same year the American casualties rose to 14,589 soldiers killed and 46,797 wounded.

 The Viet Cong army was accounted for 251,000 deaths during the Vietnam war. This made the Viet Cong forces responsible for 22% of the total deaths.

 R.J. Rummel's mid-level estimated that 65,000 North Vietnamese Civilians died from from bombing. The Vietnamese government in 1995 estimated that 4,000,000 Vietnamese civilians on both sides died in the war. (2.2)  Paraphrase: It was estimated that 65,000 North Vietnamese Civilians died during due to bombings. Between North and South Vietnam about 4,000,000 civilians died during the war.

 The Army of the Republic of Vietnam ARVN lost about 266,000 killed from 1959 through (1)  Paraphrase: During 1959 to 1975 the Vietnam ARVN lost 266,000 soldiers.

 The continued deployment of U.S. troops throughout 1966 increased the number of soldiers in Vietnam to nearly 300,000. American casualties also increased that year to 5,008 dead and 16,526 wounded.(256)  Paraphrase: Through out 1966 the continued deployment of troops raised the number of soldiers in Vietnam to 300,000. American tolls also rose to 5,008 dead and 16,526 wounded.

 Here, two soldiers await a helicopter to evacuate the body of their fallen comrade in the Long Khanh Province of Vietnam. (5)  Paraphrase: After the shooting of their friend they wait for a helicopter to take his body for medical help.

 "You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." ~ Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's

 "Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war." ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1979

 “We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” (Johnson) -Lyndon Johnson, Oct. 1964

 “Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.” (Trumbo) -Dalton Trumbo, Introduction, Johnny Got His Gun, 1970.

 "I had prayed to God that this thing was fiction.“ - Colonel William Wilson, a combat veteran who conducted an investigation into the massacre at My Lai94

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