[Paleo Conservative]

At Normandy ten men died every second. Up and down the coast. All the damn day long.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day.
[60 (sec/min)] x [60 (min/hr)] x [24 (hr/day)] = 86,400 (sec/day)

If 10 men died per second, that would be 864,000 deaths per day. That is twice as many Americans as actually died in World War II.

[MoralSense]

Lileks quoted a rate. He didn't say it went on all day.

[Oberon]

Hyperbole.

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You might also find some inaccuracies in many other statements he makes, like the following quote:

The entire nation’s economy has been redirected to felling acres of teak trees and converting the lumber to sticks to hold placards.

Obviously, he is writing in a hyperbolic style, parodying the newscasts for those sorts of excesses.

[frodolives]

He may have been counting all the poor unborn babies the soldiers COULD have produced...(sarcasm off)

Seriously, this may be an exaggeration of numbers, but it is a beautiful expression of the American sacrifices at Normandy. Those soldiers saved the world for freedom, surely a worthy cause, but I'm afraid these lives now are being sacrificed for the likes of mere Haliburton, and re-election opportunities.