{"id":488,"date":"2004-05-31T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=488"},"modified":"2004-05-31T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T17:39:12","slug":"remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Remembering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day is the kind of holiday that easily lends itself to all kinds of platitudes and bromides.  I&#8217;m going to skip all that.  Instead, I want to let the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwc.lsu.edu\/cwc\/other\/stats\/warcost.htm\">numbers speak for themselves<\/a>:<br \/>\nRevolutionary War&#8211;4,435 combat deaths<br \/>\nWar of 1812&#8211;2,260 combat deaths<br \/>\nMexican War&#8211;1,733 combat deaths<br \/>\nCivil War&#8211;184,594 combat deaths<br \/>\nSpanish-American War&#8211;385 combat deaths<br \/>\nWorld War I&#8211;53,513 combat deaths<br \/>\nWorld War II&#8211;292,131 combat deaths<br \/>\nKorean War&#8211;33,651 combat deaths<br \/>\nVietnam War&#8211;47,369 combat deaths<br \/>\nGulf War I&#8211;145 combat deaths<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lunaville.org\/warcasualties\/Summary.aspx\">Gulf War II<\/a>&#8211;814 combat deaths<br \/>\nIf you add these numbers up, it&#8217;s equivalent to the entire population of Columbus, Ohio.  And keep in mind that these numbers only reflect combat deaths, not total casualties.<br \/>\nDraw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day is the kind of holiday that easily lends itself to all kinds of platitudes and bromides. I&#8217;m going to skip all that. Instead, I want to let the numbers speak for themselves: Revolutionary War&#8211;4,435 combat deaths War of 1812&#8211;2,260 combat deaths Mexican War&#8211;1,733 combat deaths Civil War&#8211;184,594 combat deaths Spanish-American War&#8211;385 combat deaths <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=488' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-7S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}