AMERICAN WAR TOTALS
Through July 1, 1998
War Participants -- 41,790,000
Deaths In Service -- 1,090,200
Living War Veterans -- 19,300,000
Living Ex-Service Members -- 25,188,000

Source: Department of Veteran Affairs


"WHERE THEY SERVED"

AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1775 - 1784)
Participants--- 290,000
Deaths In Service -- 4,000
Last Veteran - Daniel F. Bakeman - Died 1869 Age 109


WAR OF 1812 (1812 - 1815)
Participants -- 287,000
Deaths In Service -- 2,000
Last Veteran - Hiram Cronk - Died 1905 Age 105

INDIAN WARS (APPROXIMATELY 1817 - 1898)
Participants -- 106,000
Deaths in Service --- 1,000
Last Veteran - Fredrak Fraske - Died 1973, Age 101

MEXICAN WAR (1846 - 1848)
Participants -- 79,000
Deaths In Service -- 13,000
Last Veteran - Owen Thomas Edgar - Died 1929 Age 98

CIVIL WAR (1861 - 1865)
Participants - Union Army -- 2,213,000
Deaths In Service Union Army-- 364,000
Participants - Confederate Army -- 1,000,000
Deaths In Service Confederate Army -- 133,821
Last Veteran Union Army - Albert Woolson - Died 1956 Age 109
Last Veteran Confederate Army - John Salling - Died 1958 Age 112

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898 - 1902)
Participants -- 392,000
Deaths In Service -- 11,000
Last Veteran - Nathan E. Cook - Died 1992 Age 106

WORLD WAR I (1917 - 1918)
Participants -- 4,744,000
Deaths In Service -- 116,000
Living Veterans -- 4,800
**** NOTE****
Living Veterans Do Not Include WWI Veterans
With Military Service in Other Eras

WORLD WAR II (1940 - 1947)
Participants -- 16,535,000
Deaths In Service -- 406,000
Living Veterans -- 6,319,000

KOREAN CONFLICT (1950 - 1955)
Participants -- 6,807,000
Deaths In Service -- 55,000
Living Veterans -- 4,179,000

VIETNAM ERA (1964 - 1975)
Participants -- 9,200,000
Deaths In Service -- 109,000
Living Veterans -- 8,166,000

GULF WAR ERA (1990 - 1998)
Participants -- 3,800,000
Deaths In Service -- 9,000
Living Veterans -- 2,048,000

IN A TRIBUTE TO ALL VETERAN
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Veterans Gallery of HONOR
BY
D.A.V. 3 PHILIPPINES

ENTER VETERANS' GALLERY ONE

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