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The Forgotten

8,744,000 military personnel participated in the war involving the United States, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam;
58,177 American soldiers were killed, and 153,303 wounded;
1.5 million military personnel and 2 million civilians died in North Vietnam;
255,000 military personnel and 430,000 civilians were killed in South Vietnam.

I wonder why there are only round figures on one side and exact ones on the other, and above all, why no list included the number

of orphans;
of widows;
of aborted dreams;
of broken hearts.

I also wonder if all those figures would have been different had love been considered in the calculations, the strategies, the equations, and above all the battles.