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Some U.S. Civil War stats (courtesy http://www.civil-war.net) --
Killed and Mortally Wounded: 110,070 (31%)
Died of Disease: 199,720 (56%)
Died as Prisoner: 24,866 (7%)
Died from Accidents: 9,058 (3%)
Died from all Causes
except Battle: 15,814 (4%)
Total Deaths: 359,528
[percentages are rounded]
Looks like if your number was going to come up in this conflict, you had a 56% chance of dying by disease. Your odds of dying by battlefield wound weren't much better...
I hear that we are losing more Marines in sportbike accidents than in combat. I don't know if it's true but it's certainly plausible.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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