Memorial Day

FREEDOM ISN’T FREE

Remember our dead of each war:

American Revolution — 25,324

War of 1812 — 2,260

Mexican War — 13,283

Civil War:
* Union — 498,332
* Confederacy — 364,821
* Antietam — 5,000 (both sides) in one day

Spanish-American War — 2,446

World War I — 116,516

World War II — 405,399

Korean War — 54,246

Vietnam War — 56,244

Panama Invasion — 23

Gulf War (1991) — 148

And our men and women who have fallen in the fight against terrorism in this war.

(Stats from AskJeeves.com)

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By Holly

Novelist, writing teacher, on a mission to reprint my out-of-print books and indie-publish my new ones.

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