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Over 100,000 US Vietnam Vet Suicides To Date!
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VIETNAM STATISTICS

This list tells it all. These statistics could change many hearts.
Pass this on.

We, the U.S. have lost over 158,000 American lives to the Vietnam war and that count is still rising.

Approx 58,000 in Vietnam. 100,000 or more to suicide and most of those occurred after the men came home.

This accurate accounting gives us persepective on the cost of current and future wars.

from
Fallen Leaves, Broken Lives
By Edward Tick
Utne magazine
January-February 2005 Issue


CASUALTIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR

THERE ARE MORE THAN 58,000 NAMES OF AMERICAN DEAD ON THE WALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., BUT THE TOTAL COSTS ARE STILL BEING TALLIED.



THE PEOPLE

American Veterans
Vietnamese People
In Country
2.5 million
est. 1970 pop. 41 million
In Combat
1.5 million
unknown
Killed in Action
58,000+
2.5 million
Wounded
300,000+*
4 million
Missing in Action
2,000+
250,000
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
1.5 million+
unknown
Suicides
100,000+
unknown
Homeless
150,000 nightly
unknown
Boat People
0
1 million (Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia)
Lost at Sea
0
500,000
Disabled Street People
unknown
3 million
New Agent Orange Deformities
unknown
35,000/year
Peacetime Deaths Due to Unexploded Bombs & Mines
0
50,000+ (Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia)
Maimed by Bombs and Mines (1975-98)
0
67,000
Reeducation Camps
0
400,000 in 100 camps
* includes U.S: 74,000 quadriplegics and multiple amputees




THE VIETNAMESE LAND
Total Herbicides Used
19.4 million gallons

Agent Orange Sprayed
11.7 million gallons

Mangrove Forest Destroyed
60%

Forest & Jungle Destroyed
18%

Cultivated Land Destroyed
8%




U.S. BOMBING
8 billion+ pounds (4 times more than WWII total; equal to 600 Hiroshima-size bombs)

23 million bomb craters

2,257 U.S. aircraft lost

Over 4,000 of total 5,778 villages bombed, 150 completely destroyed




DESTROYED
10 million cubic meters of dikes


815 hydroelectric works


1,100 lake embankments


8 forestries


48 agricultural research centers with 6,000 agricultural machines and 46,000 water buffalo
400 factories


18 power stations


13,000 boats


15,100 bridges


2,923 high schools and universities


350 hospitals


1,500 maternity hospitals


484 churches


465 pagodas


240,540 thatched huts






TOTAL COST TO THE UNITED STATES:
$925 Billion



Edward Tick collected these statistics by searching history books, newspapers, and archives, and interviewing survivors and scholars throughout the United States and Southeast Asia. Following is a partial list of his sources. In the United States: Disabled American Veterans; The New York Times; Hell, Healing and Resistance by Daniel Hallock; The Vietnam War: A History in Documents, by Young, Fitzgerald & Grunfel; Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War. In Viet Nam: Army Museum, Ha Noi; Hong Ngoc (Rosy Jade) Humanity Center, Sao Do; Research Center for Gender, Family, and Environment in Development, Ha Noi; Women's Museum, Ha Noi; War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City.

EDWARD TICK (left) is director and senior psychotherapist of the Sanctuary: A Center for Mentoring the Soul in Albany, New York (http://www.mentorthesoul.com/). He is known for his groundbreaking work with Viet Nam veterans -- as well as veterans of World War II, Korea, El Salvador, Lebanon, the first Gulf War, and the present war in Iraq -- suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The author of The Practice of Dream Healing (Quest, 2001), he has two books forthcoming this year: The Golden Tortoise: Viet Nam Journeys (Red Hen, April 2005) and War and the Soul (Quest, November 2005).

Tick recently presented his work at the Bioneers Conference, an annual gathering of those who seek "visionary & practical solutions for restoring the earth and people" in Marin, California. To read about the work of other Bioneers, go to http://www.utne.com/bioneers/.