Some interesting graphics coming from MarineTimes.com, including a map of the U.S. with dots indicating where our 3k casualties originated. Worth looking at. If you take the link, there are other breakdowns worth examining.
Map of Casualties
Some interesting graphics coming from MarineTimes.com, including a map of the U.S. with dots indicating where our 3k casualties originated. Worth looking at. If you take the link, there are other breakdowns worth examining.
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How is this surprising?
Higher pop=more deaths
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id like to see that map paired against a an ecomomic model/map of the us. models/graphs of the education/econmomic background of the deaths...
the poor fight to keep the rich.
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Not really....Originally Posted by Beren Son Of Barahi
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Not always true, but nonetheless it would be interesting to see.
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I was all set to don my armor in defense of the economically oppressed, but unfortunately...
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Nat...y/cda06-09.cfm
It would seem, at least to Tim Kane and Heritage.org, that the poor are actually underrepresented in our military. Hmm, maybe times have changed or their data is skewed, but for what its worth I'll let others decide.
Perhaps that myth, the poor fight are wars, comes from the days where there was an actual draft. In that case, the middle class and up found it much easier to send their children to college, or use their influence to avoid military service all together.
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There isn't a map like that, but there are a number of interesting graphics to be found if you'd care to follow the link ...
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I was going to suggest that myself, though unemployment would be a better thing to cross-reference with.
One interesting thing i've noticed in australia's situation (and something which really emphasises how it's the poor who fight) is that as the economy has got stronger in recent years, the average age of soldiers has gone up and the recruitment rate down (the army is now having to raise pay in an effort to get more troops)
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The "poor fighting for the rich" is hardly a principle in the current US army. Most come from middle class and upper middle class families. A more interesting chart would be to show average income during their upbringing and the ratio that are officers. Would be willing to place odd's on which have a higher percentage of officer's in the army.
Last edited by BigTex; 01-11-2007 at 10:09.
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That little red dot in South Western Vermont got a lot of newspaper coverage. I still actually remember more or less what the guy looked like...
Yeah I don't really have anything to add to the discussion besides that.
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