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Coordinates: 39°49′11″N 89°39′45″W. Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial honors the 2,970 Illinois residents who are listed as killed or listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. Dedicated in 1988, the Memorial includes the names of the dead or missing carved in black granite walls that radiate from the central eternal flame.
program: "This memorial is dedicated to veterans from all branches of the armed services who served in Vietnam. It replaces the former Vietnam Memorial located on Wacker Drive that was dedicated on November 11, 1982. The inscribed stones from that memorial have been incorporated into the plaza of this memorial." [1]
The Army had 52% of the suicides from all branches. [1] In 2013, the United States Department of Veteran Affairs released a study that covered suicides from 1999 to 2010, which showed that roughly 22 veterans were dying by suicide per day, or one every 65 minutes. [4] Some sources suggest that this rate may be undercounting suicides. [5]
Commonly cited casualty figures provided by the Department of Defense are 4,435 killed and 6,188 wounded, although the original government report that generated these numbers warned that the totals were incomplete and far too low. [89] In 1974, historian Howard Peckham and a team of researchers came up with a total of 6,824 killed in action and ...
Myth of the spat-on Vietnam veteran. A G.I. Joe comic showing a classic example of an antiwar hippie spitting on a returning Vietnam vet. There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced ...
PAVN/VC military deaths. 444,000–666,000. Civilian deaths (North and South Vietnam) 405,000–627,000. Total deaths. 1,353,000. A 1995 demographic study in Population and Development Review calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 1965 to 1975.
Winter Soldier Investigation. The "Winter Soldier Investigation" was a media event sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) from January 31, 1971, to February 2, 1971. It was intended to publicize war crimes and atrocities by the United States Armed Forces and their allies in the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War body count controversy centers on the counting of enemy dead by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War (1955–1975). There are issues around killing and counting unarmed civilians (non-combatants) as enemy combatants, as well as inflating the number of actual enemy who were killed in action (KIA).