re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Weird.

My wife ran across a PBS Newshour article from 2019 claiming 90,220 American servicemen and women died in the Vietnam War.

I’m not sure where they got that number. They claim their sources are the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The actual number from the Department of Defense is 58,220.

I’ve been to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. There aren’t ninety thousand names on the wall.

(National Archives, more at the link)

archives.gov

Look for the answer in the PBS definition. Could their wording be including a select set of veteran suicides?