Veterans Day 9 amazing facts

One of my hobbies is studying history as well as famous people who shape it.

There is a popular saying about studying history in order to learn from it and not  repeat it’s mistakes. As we celebrate Veterans Day, I thought I would share some interesting facts about the United States and its military history. Before I begin, I want to state that I am not advocating military conflict or war, but just reviewing the situations that our country has faced in the past roughly 240 years.

1)    Veterans Day (Armistice Day) was first celebrated on was November  11 1919 as the annual celebration of the end of World War One.

2)    The Unites States has been involved in about 103  wars since declaring Independence from England.

3)    Approximately 1.35 million American soldiers have been killed in action in these wars.

4)    Listed in descending order are the approximate number of American soldiers killed in various major wars:

War                             Americans killed      dates

a.    Civil War                                 625,000                       1861-1865

b.    World War Two                      405,000                       1941-1945

c.    World War One                      116,000                        1917-1918

d.    Vietnam War                            58,000                        1955-1975

e.    Korean War                              36,000                        1950-1953

f.     Revolutionary War                   25,000                        1775-1783

g.    War of 1812                              20,000                        1812-1815

h.    Mexican-American War          13,000                        1846-1848

i.      Iraq/Afghanistan Wars             6,800                         2001-ongoing

j.      Spanish American War            2,450                          1898

5)    Statistics about World War One:

a.    32 Countries involved

b.    About 10,000,000 soldiers killed

c.    About 25,000,000 total killed

d.    Americans killed were about 4% of the total lost in the war

e.    War lasted 1,568 days

f.     14,700 people died a day

 6)    Statistics about World War Two:

a.    Over 100 countries involved

b.    About 25,000,000 soldiers killed

c.    About 80,000,000 people killed

d.    Russia and China combined lost about 40,000,000 people

e.    Americans killed totaled about .5% of the total lost in the war

f.     War lasted 2,190 days

g.    About 36,000 died a day

 7)    Both world wars combined contributed to the loss of about 100 million people of which 35 million were soldiers.

 8)    26 of our 45 US presidents have served in the military.

 9)    9 of our US presidents were war heroes:

      a. George Washington

b.  Andrew Jackson

c. Zachary Taylor

d. Ulysses S. Grant

e. Theodore Roosevelt

f. Dwight D. Eisenhower

g. John F. Kennedy

h. Gerald Ford

i. George H. W. Bush

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