Happy Memorial Day

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  1. May 22, 2026 at 11:03 AM #1
    SRT-Tom

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    Happy Memorial Day weekend to all of our challengerforum members. On this day, let us remember those who gave their lives so that we could live in freedom.

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  2. May 23, 2026 at 5:05 AM #2
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  3. May 24, 2026 at 12:47 PM #3
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    More than 1.1 million Americans have died in wars spanning 250 years — from Lexington and Concord to the streets of Tehran. Here is a breakdown of deaths and wounded by wars:

    1 World War II 1941-1945, Deaths- 405,399, Wounded- 670,846
    2 Civil War (Union) 1861-186, Deaths- 364,511, Wounded- 281,881
    3 Civil War (Confederacy) 1861-1865, Deaths- 258,000, Wounded- 100,000
    4 World War I 1917-1918, Deaths- 116,516, Wounded- 204,002
    5 Vietnam War 1955-1975, Deaths- 58,220, Wounded- 153,303
    6 Korean War 1950-1953, Deaths- 36,574, Wounded- 103,284
    7 Revolutionary War 1775-1783, Deaths- 25,000, Wounded- 25,000
    8 War of 1812 1812-1815, Deaths-15,000, Wounded- 4,505
    9 Mexican-American War 1846-1848, Deaths- 13,283, Wounded- 4,152
    10 Iraq War 2003-2011, Deaths- 4,599, Wounded- 32,226
    11 Philippine-American War 1899-1902, Deaths- 4,196, Wounded- 2,930
    12 Afghanistan War 2001-2021, Deaths- 2,461, Wounded- 20,752
    13 Spanish-American War 1898, Deaths- 2,446, Wounded- 1,662
    14 Quasi-War 1798-1800, Deaths- 514, Wounded- 0
    15 Gulf War 1990-1991, Deaths- 383, Wounded0 467
    16 Anti-ISIS 2014-present, Deaths- 93, Wounded- 200
    17 War on Terror (other) 2001-present, Deaths- 50, Wounded- 100
    18 Dominican Republic 1965-1966, Deaths- 44, Wounded- 283
    19 Somalia 1992-1994, Deaths- 43, Wounded- 153
    20 Barbary Wars 1801-1805, Deaths- 35, Wounded- 64
    21 Panama 1989-1990, Deaths- 23, Wounded- 325
    22 Grenada 1983, Deaths- 19, Wounded- 116
    23 Iran 2026 2026-present, Deaths- 13, Wounded- 45
    24 Bosnia 1995-2004, Deaths- 12, Wounded- 0
    25 Somalia (AFRICOM) 2007-present, Deaths- 8, Wounded- 20
    26 Bay of Pigs 1961, Deaths-, Wounded- 0
    27 Niger/Sahel 2013-2024, Deaths- 4, Wounded- 2
    28 Kosovo 1998-1999, Deaths- 2, Wounded- 0
    29 Yemen 2015-2025, Deaths- 2, Wounded- 5
     
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  4. May 24, 2026 at 1:20 PM #4
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    what war was you in tommy ?
     
  5. May 24, 2026 at 2:19 PM #5
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    I was not in the military. However, my father was in the army (4th Division) and was in the D-Day invasion (Utah Beach) and the Battle of the Bulge. Also, my grandfather was in the army and fought in France during WW I.