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58, 281 American deaths now. View Nam war: 58,220 (Original Post)
CanonRay
Apr 2020
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malaise
(269,157 posts)1. Will pass 60,000 tomorrow
Fuck Don the criminally negligent Con
doc03
(35,364 posts)2. Trump has shattered another record, so much
winning. His campaign slogan this year is Keep America Great!
Botany
(70,581 posts)3. "58, 281 American deaths now. View Nam war: 58,220"
misanthrope
(7,428 posts)4. The difference in public perception is from one thing: time
While it should be alarming that the nation passed that ignominious mark so quickly, it was the prolonged aspect of the Vietnam War that wore out Americans. The drip, drip, drip did the trick.
We've seen from the two decades of Aghanistan, that's not going to be the case any more. It looks as though we've become far more impervious these days unless it affects someone we personally know.