Jay Honeck wrote in news:1195059782.414790.326460
@v65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

Another generation of American men and women who paid billions of
their tax dollars to rebuild Europe after World War II, and then
sacrificed their blood and treasure to fight the Cold War for another
generation, must surely be thinking the same thing -- why did we
bother?

How much blood was lost in the Cold War?

Tens of thousands of Americans lost their lives in the "Cold War"
agains the Soviet Union. Battlegrounds where the "Cold" war became
"hot" include Korea, Viet Nam, and a dozen other less-prominent
conflicts from 1946 to 1990.


Over four million people lost thier lives in the war Vietnam (possibly
closer to five) and two and a half million in Korea.

Well, it was all in a good cause, eh?


Bertie