[Cronos]

Not to be crude or anything like that, but the total number of troops dead we suffered in WWI, WWI, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf War I was 668,506 -- about 1/3rd of the casualties faced by Japan in WWII(1.7 million), about 1/5th of what Germany faced in WWII (3.25 million) and about 1/20th of what the Soviet Union lost in WWII (13.7 million)

It shows we do care a lot about our troops

[DMZFrank]

The only good thing that the Commies ever did for this nation was to tie down nearly 80% of what was arguably the best army in the world at that time, the German Heer. Look at the trouble and casualties that we had subduing 25% of it in Western Europe. While our leadership would not have been as wasteful of life as the Red Soviets, I still shudder as to how many of our fathers and grandfathers would have been killed had we had to face only a few more of those divisions transferred from the Eastern Front.