A newspaper article reports today, "In the Vietnam war, for every soldier killed, three came
home wounded. In Iraq, for every soldier killed, seven come
home wounded." Those are some substantial numbers...and I wonder if they're even accounting for PTSD in them, which is often considered an "invisible wound," and one which shows up usually after the fact. The numbers could be even that much higher...
Roughly 5,000 killed to date -- 35,000 wounded (by that estimate) -- and for every veteran, another 50 people who he or she affects (see Fred Gusman comment about that, which we blogged about earlier -- linked here). If we add the number killed and the number wounded together, then multiply the 50 each veteran affects directly in his or her life, that's 2 million Americans affected by veterans' sacrifices.
