This Is Why I Remember

[TheIceTitan]

Originally Posted by TrollGRG

As we remember all of our fallen I thought I would impart some interesting facts to impress on you the sacrifices made by those who served.

A fellow SAR Tech did a little research and came up with these staggering numbers:

WW1 619,636 served, 59,544 died, casualty rate 1 in 10
WW2 1,000,000 served, 45,000 died, casualty rate 1 in 22
Korean War 26,000 served, 516 died, casualty rate 1 in 50
Afghanistan 40,000 served, 158 died, casualty rate 1 in 253
SAR Techs 650 served, 14 died, casualty rate 1 in 46

"We will remember them"

Those figures exclude the wounded; including the wounded, ~35% of the men who served in WWI were either killed or wounded.

Brutal.