The date-of-death reported in the Defense Casualty Analysis System DCAS Extract Files is either the actual date-of-death or the date-of-incident, whereas the date-of-death for the Combat Area Casualties Current File is either the actual date-of-death or the date on which the casualty was declared dead.
The full casualty records of the Defense Casualty Analysis System DCAS Extract Files are accessible online for name searches as well as for searches using any of the other fields identified in the data layout of the files in this series for records of specific casualties via the Access to Archival Databases AAD resource. These tables represent statistics for a selection of categories based on the fields of the file.
The selections of fields used in creating these tables were made on the basis of usefulness and interest to prospective researchers and the general public. In the meantime, a generation has grown up with no experience of the war.
They are not willing to experience poverty, like being a waiter or a housemaid. They didn't experience war, so they don't know how people back then suffered a lot. They just want to be [in a] high position without working too much.
Her son, a burly year-old limping from a post-soccer brawl, interrupted to ask for a banh mi. He displays artifacts from both sides, collected over eight years of fighting and two decades of return trips to the battlefield.
The items range from American uniforms and radio transmitters to the blanket his superior gave him when he was wounded by a bullet. He showed me a coffee filter that one of his fellow soldiers had made from the wreckage of an American plane that had crashed. We drank tea in his courtyard, surrounded by plane fragments and missile shells.
Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. The Atlantic Crossword. Sign In Subscribe. Nixon and LBJ both knew the war was unwinnable yet escalated. And our young men Did die for Nothing. Most South Vietnamese civilians and soldiers wanted communism. So it was worth the death of millions of people? Would things have been any different today if the US did not invade the country with overwhelming military force? It is ridiculous rationalization like yours that continues to cause endless wars around the globe.
I think you need to dig a little deeper into your history. The communists are responsible for approximately ,, deaths in the 20th century, and your blaming the US for stopping it? War for political beliefs are just sad and who gives a shit about communism or any other ism.
Oh wait Hitler did. Always need a boogie man and then the soldiers and civilians behind the lines or on them pay the price.
Maybe one day we can start killing the people starting the wars. Or possibly someone will create the greatest weapon of all the empathy gun. War is just plain stupid and anyone who thinks otherwise has never seen any real death or combat.
Only a few who volunteered for relief efforts. Big surprise. The US civilian population was thousands of miles away. You are obviously an idiot. Even as the enemy body count at times exaggerated by U. Additionally, supported by aid from China and the Soviet Union, North Vietnam strengthened its air defenses. By November , the number of American troops in Vietnam was approaching ,, and U. The later years of the war saw increased physical and psychological deterioration among American soldiers—both volunteers and draftees—including drug use , post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD , mutinies and attacks by soldiers against officers and noncommissioned officers.
Between July and December , more than , U. Bombarded by horrific images of the war on their televisions, Americans on the home front turned against the war as well: In October , some 35, demonstrators staged a massive Vietnam War protest outside the Pentagon.
Opponents of the war argued that civilians, not enemy combatants, were the primary victims and that the United States was supporting a corrupt dictatorship in Saigon. On January 31, , some 70, DRV forces under General Vo Nguyen Giap launched the Tet Offensive named for the lunar new year , a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than cities and towns in South Vietnam. Taken by surprise, U. Reports of the Tet Offensive stunned the U.
With his approval ratings dropping in an election year, Johnson called a halt to bombing in much of North Vietnam though bombings continued in the south and promised to dedicate the rest of his term to seeking peace rather than reelection. Despite the later inclusion of the South Vietnamese and the NLF, the dialogue soon reached an impasse, and after a bitter election season marred by violence, Republican Richard M.
Nixon won the presidency. In an attempt to limit the volume of American casualties, he announced a program called Vietnamization : withdrawing U. In addition to this Vietnamization policy, Nixon continued public peace talks in Paris, adding higher-level secret talks conducted by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger beginning in the spring of The North Vietnamese continued to insist on complete and unconditional U.
The next few years would bring even more carnage, including the horrifying revelation that U. After the My Lai Massacre , anti-war protests continued to build as the conflict wore on. In and , there were hundreds of protest marches and gatherings throughout the country.
On November 15, , the largest anti-war demonstration in American history took place in Washington, D. The anti-war movement, which was particularly strong on college campuses, divided Americans bitterly.
For some young people, the war symbolized a form of unchecked authority they had come to resent. For other Americans, opposing the government was considered unpatriotic and treasonous.
As the first U. Nixon ended draft calls in , and instituted an all-volunteer army the following year. In , a joint U.
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