History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2147 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The War's Costs
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The idea
More than fifty-eight thousand Americans died in the war; Digital History gives fifty-eight thousand one hundred thirty-two.
In practice
More than three million Americans served, their average age nineteen, Digital History records.
Where people slip
The anchor counts over one and a half million Vietnamese dead, combatants and civilians; Digital History says the Vietnamese may have lost two million lives, and bore the war's greatest suffering.
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