Of the Vietnam War: $430.2
9/84Estimated amount of money sent home each year by Mexicans working in the U.S.: $500,000,000
11/86Number of college courses on the Vietnam War offered in 1980: 58
Number of Americans who served in World War II and were declared missing in action: 78,751
10/89Ratio of per capita Nicaraguan war casualties since 1979 to per capita American war casualties in Vietnam: 33:1
4/91Number of U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam before a Washington antiwar rally drew more than 75,000 people: 14,000
Number of U.S. combat deaths in the Persian Gulf before the January 26 rally that drew more than 75,000 people: 0
4/91Percentage of TV evening-news coverage of the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1970 that depicted casualties in battle: 3
4/91Number of walls the size of the Vietnam Memorial it would take to list all the Vietnamese who died in the war: 69
4/91Number of courses on the Vietnam War required for graduation from West Point: 0
5/96Number of Vietnamese in Vietnam in 1969, per US. soldier stationed there: 77
10/99Number of Vietnam-era helicopters that the U.S. donated to Mexico for drug control between 1996 and 1997: 73
Percentage of them that the U.S. agreed to take back last summer after Mexico found them defective: 100
10/01Ratio of acres of Colombia sprayed with defoliants last year to acres of Vietnam sprayed with Agent Orange in 1964: 3:2
11/01Members of Congress who voted against this fall’s resolution to authorize an armed response to September 11’s attack: 1
Members who voted against the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to authorize further U.S. attacks on Vietnam: 2
11/01Chances that a U.S. soldier in the Vietnam War volunteered: 4 in 5
Chance that a U.S. soldier in World War II did so: 1 in 3
4/01Average number of people killed in Laos each year since 1973 by U.S. bombs left over from the Vietnam War: 28
10/04Years after leaving his post during the Vietnam War that a Connecticut man was arrested for desertion in July: 34
11/04Days after the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that Dick Cheney married, securing a draft deferment: 22
11/05Years after the start of the Vietnam War that a majority of Americans first said it was a “mistake”: 3 1/2
Years after the start of the Iraq War that a majority said this: 1 1/4
11/05Number of journalists killed in Vietnam War during twenty years of war there: 63
2/07Number of Silver Stars the Army has awarded so far for heroism in the Iraq and Afghan wars combined: 249
Number it awarded for the Vietnam War: 21,630
2/08Chance that an Iraq war veteran who has served two or more tours now has post-traumatic stress disorder: 1 in 4
Percentage change since 1997 in the number of Vietnam-era veterans seeking treatment for PTSD: +108
9/08Number of John McCain’s Vietnamese torturers who have publicly endorsed his candidacy: 1