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
MIA	2,000+	250,000
PTSD	1.5 million+	unknown
Suicides	100,000+	unknown
Homeless	150,000 nightly	unknown
Boat People	0	1 million (Vietnam, Laos, & 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+ (Vietnam, Laos, & 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 toal 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 (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 www.utne.com/bioneers.

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