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I know I have been through plenty of therapy about forgiving myself, making amends as best as possible, understanding the deep US history and politics and lies behind virtually all of our wars, but I still experience bouts of anger, lots of it, especially since the US is endlessly involved in perpetual wars that make any lessons from Viet Nam totally irrelevant. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">Herein, I am once again reminding people of the heartbreaking statistics of the US war against Viet Nam, supported by US politicians, taxpayers, and guinea pigs like me who didn't know any better at the time. And the US is still at it, destroying people's lives, economically, culturally, physically, psychologically, ecologically, etc. :</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab ii04i59q o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x"><div dir="auto" class="">*Seventy-five percent of South Viet Nam was considered a free-fire zone (i.e., genocidal zones)</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Over 6 million Southeast Asians killed</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Over 64,000 US and Allied soldiers killed</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Over 1,600 US soldiers, and 300,000 Vietnamese soldiers remain missing</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Thousands of amputees, paraplegics, blind, deaf, and other maimings created</div><div dir="auto" class="">*13,000 of 21,000 of Vietnamese villages, or 62 percent, severely damaged or destroyed, mostly by bombing</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Nearly 950 churches and pagodas destroyed by bombing</div><div dir="auto" class="">*350 hospitals and 1,500 maternity wards destroyed by bombing</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Nearly 3,000 high schools and universities destroyed by bombing</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Over 15,000 bridges destroyed by bombing</div><div dir="auto" class="">*10 million cubic meters of dikes destroyed by bombing</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Over 3,700 US fixed-wing aircraft lost</div><div dir="auto" class="">*36,125,000 US helicopter sorties during the war; over 10,000 helicopters were lost or severely damaged</div><div dir="auto" class="">*26 million bomb craters created, the majority from B-52s (a B-52 bomb crater could be 20 feet deep, and 40 feet across)</div><div dir="auto" class="">*39 million acres of land in Indochina (or 91 percent of the land area of South Viet Nam) were littered with fragments of bombs and shells, equivalent to 244,000 (160 acre) farms, or an area the size of all New England except Connecticut</div><div dir="auto" class="">*21 million gallons (80 million liters) of extremely poisonous chemicals (herbicides) were applied in 20,000 chemical spraying missions between 1961 and 1970 in the most intensive use of chemical warfare in human history, with as many as 4.8 million Vietnamese living in nearly 3,200 villages directly sprayed by the chemicals</div><div dir="auto" class="">*24 percent, or 16,100 square miles, of South Viet Nam was sprayed, an area larger than the states of Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island combined, killing tropical forest, food crops, and inland forests</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Over 500,000 Vietnamese have died from chronic conditions related to chemical spraying with an estimated 650,000 still suffering from such conditions; 500,000 children have been born with Agent Orange-induced birth defects, now including third generation offspring</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Nearly 375,000 tons of fireballing napalm was dropped on villages</div><div dir="auto" class="">*Huge Rome Plows (made in Rome, Georgia), 20-ton earthmoving D7E Caterpillar tractors, fitted with a nearly 2.5-ton curved 11-foot wide attached blade protected by 14 additional tons of armor plate, scraped clean between 700,000 and 750,000 acres (1,200 square miles), an area equivalent to Rhode Island, leaving bare earth, rocks, and smashed trees</div><div dir="auto" class="">*As many as 36,000,000 total tons of ordance expended from aerial and naval bombing, artillery, and ground combat firepower. *On an average day US artillery expended 10,000 rounds costing $1 million per day; </div><div dir="auto" class="">*150,000-300,000 tons of UXO remain scattered around Southeast Asia: 40,000 have been killed in Viet Nam since the end of the war in 1975, and nearly 70,000 injured; 20,000 Laotians have been killed or injured since the end of the war</div><div dir="auto" class="">*13.7 billion gallons of fuel were consumed by US forces during the war</div><div dir="auto" class="">*If there was space for all 6,000,000 names of Southeast Asian dead on the Vietnam Wall in Washington, DC, it would be over 9 sobering miles long, or nearly 100 times its current 493 foot length</div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>